Cassini gets altitude adjustment
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The Cassini-Huygens mission&#39;s second (comparatively) close encounter Monday with Saturn&#39;s moon Titan generated more atmospheric drag on the spacecraft than expected, NASA mission controllers say.
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NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft streaked by Saturn&#39;s smoggy moon Titan today, targeted to pass within just 750 miles of the planet-sized satellite to give scientists their first
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A closer view of the Cassini image of the Huygens Probe after its successful release. The image was taken about 12 hours after the probe&#39;s release from the orbiter.
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Summary - (Oct 29, 2004) This image of Titan was taken when Cassini reached the closest point of its flyby on October 26. At this point, it was only 1,600 km (994 miles) above the surface of Titan.
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The first targeted flyby of Titan occurs on Tuesday, October 26, 2004 at 15:30 UTC (8:30 am Pacific time). Cassini&#39;s closest approach to Saturn&#39;s largest satellite is at an altitude of 1200 km (746 miles) above
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The Cassini spacecraft hurtled through space on a Christmas Eve mission to release a probe that will plunge through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan.
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The Cassini spacecraft successfully fired its engine for 51 minutes Monday to raise its orbit so it will not pass through Saturn's rings on its next close approach to the planet and to set itself on course for another flyby of the big moon Titan on Oct. 26, NASA said.
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In a matter of days the European Space Agency&#39;s (ESA) SMART-1 spacecraft will enter orbit around the Moon. It will adjust its position and prepare for the scientific investigation of the lunar surface that will begin in January.
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The Cassini spacecraft has sent back images of the largest mountain range yet found on Saturn's giant moon.
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The European-designed Huygens spacecraft has begun its 20-day descent to Saturn&#39;s satellite Titan with the aim of penetrating its thick atmosphere and unraveling the mysteries below.
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In the prelude to a plunge, NASA&#39;s Cassini will set Europe&#39;s Huygens probe free tonight. It&#39;s the start of a thrill ride that in three weeks will drop Huygens into the murky moon Titan.
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The international Cassini spacecraft began beaming close-up images of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan to Earth late Tuesday. Cassini reached the point of closest approach of about 279,000
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After a seven-year journey through space, passing Venus and Jupiter, a joint European-US mission to Saturn will enter a new phase tomorrow when the spacecraft Cassini releases its Huygens
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After a journey of seven years and more than 2bn miles, a Â£1.7bn US-European mission is preparing for the unknown. Cassini, a Nasa spacecraft the size of a truck, carrying Huygens, a European robot not much
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The U.S.-European spacecraft Cassini hurtled Tuesday toward its closest encounter yet with Saturn's giant moon Titan.
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A European satellite designed to improve weather forecasting has been given a new launch date.
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The Cassini spacecraft has begun to beam close-up images of Saturn&#39;s giant moon Titan to Earth. Cassini reached the point of closest approach, about 2,000 kilometres, Tuesday morning and transmitted to NASA&#39;s deep-space network antenna in Madrid, Spain.