Cassini Dodges Fellow Space Probe
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It swerved to avoid following a just-released probe into the atmosphere of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan. NASA&#39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the altered course puts Cassini in the proper position to receive radio
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Systems from Contraves Space in Zurich will help separate the probe from its mother ship, Cassini, which was built by NASA in the United States.
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Summary - (Nov 8, 2004) NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft took this image of Titan as it sped past the moon on Oct. 26, 2004. It was taken from an altitude of 2,500 km (1,553 miles) using the spacecraft&#39;s aperture
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The NASA spacecraft Cassini, which is carrying a European Space Agency probe, cut off communications with controllers on Monday as it prepared to peer beneath a veil of smog shrouding Saturn&#39;s moon, Titan.
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Europe's first mission to the moon got a scare Saturday, but ground controllers were able make a last-minute course correction that kept the European Space Agency craft from prematurely hitting a lunar crater's rim.
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Cassini-Huygens, a joint US-European mission to Saturn, has had its closest encounter yet with Titan, one of Saturn&#39;s moons. It flew to within 745 miles and beamed back the first images of the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere.
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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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The U.S.-European spacecraft Cassini hurtled Tuesday toward its closest encounter yet with Saturn's giant moon Titan.
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The Cassini spacecraft cruised on Tuesday to within 745 miles of Titan, Saturn&#39;s planet-size moon, for the first close encounter with it.
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The international Cassini spacecraft went into safe mode this week after successfully passing over a Saturn moon that was the mysterious destination of a deep-space faring astronaut in Arthur C. Clarke's novel "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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A science probe making  NASA&#39;s first foray into the asteroid belt missed its summer  launch window, jeopardizing NASA&#39;s first attempt to orbit two  bodies with a single spacecraft, officials said on Sunday.
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The European space agency is celebrating the successful launch of its probe to Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan. The Huygens probe was launched from the NASA spacecraft Cassini which was orbiting Saturn and is due to reach Titan in mid-January.
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It&#39;s an encounter that everyone has been waiting for: on Tuesday, October 26, Cassini-Huygens will streak past Titan in the mission&#39;s first close encounter with Saturn&#39;s largest moon.
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NASA&#39;s Cassini orbiter had its closest encounter with Saturn&#39;s smog-shrouded moon, Titan, on Tuesday, but scientists must wait to see their first glimpse of its icy surface.
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A European spacecraft has started a journey into the unknown as scientists prepare to land on Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan. The Huygens probe was expected to separate from its mothership, Cassini, at about
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It shouldn&#39;t happen to a scientist: investigators have found that the $250m (Â£139m) Genesis space probe, which crash-landed in the Utah desert last month, failed because the switches designed to trigger its parachute were installed backwards.
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A NASA space probe with ties to Tucson was hurtling toward a moon of the planet Saturn on Christmas Day. The machine has been traveling through space for seven years, and it&#39;s now in the home stretch of the mission.