Update: Huygens Probe Set to Detach From Cassini Orbiter Tonight
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The Huygens probe, built and managed by the European Space Agency (ESA), is bolted to Cassini and fed electrical power through an umbilical cable.
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A new space probe has been sent out to try to discover the secrets of Titan, Saturn&#39;s largest moon. The American spacecraft Cassini, orbiting Saturn, has launched the probe Huygens on a course to reach Titan in about three weeks&#39; time.
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After a seven-year journey, a saucer-shaped probe successfully detached itself from the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn late last night, starting a 20-day
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Today the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft makes a fly-by of Saturn&#39;s largest moon Titan - the closest ever performed. At the time of the closest approach, which is scheduled for 18:44 CEST, the spacecraft
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PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 24 -- The Cassini spacecraft hurtled toward a Christmas Eve mission to release a probe that will plunge through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan.
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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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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 cord will be cut today, and a billion-dollar baby will be on its own. Space scientists at the University of Arizona and around the world will find out tomorrow if the 9-foot-wide, saucer-shaped Huygens probe has been properly launched for its Jan.
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NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a getaway maneuver on Monday, Dec. 27, to keep it from following the European Space Agency&#39;s Huygens probe into the atmosphere of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan.
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The Huygens spacecraft is about to begin the final leg of its journey to Saturn&#39;s enigmatic moon Titan. The US-European probe will separate from its &quot;mothership&quot; Cassini on 25 December and coast
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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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With a gentle shove on Christmas Eve, the Cassini spacecraft will launch the European Space Agency's Huygens probe on a course that should send it plunging into the atmosphere of Saturn's big moon Titan.
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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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The Huygens probe is ejected by its mothership and should hit Saturn's largest moon in three weeks' time.
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Ground controllers at the European Space Agency and Nasa got their dearest Christmas present at 3.20am: that Huygens had successfully detached from its mother ship -- Cassini.
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Dec. 23, 2004 - As many earthlings prepare for Christmas celebrations this weekend, more than two billion kilometres (one billion miles) away a small space probe will begin the final stage of a long journey aimed at a touchdown on one of Saturn&#39;s moons.
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The University of Tasmania will be part of a mission to Saturn&#39;s largest moon in the new year. The university&#39;s two radio telescopes will track the space probe Huygens as it decends into the moon&#39;s atmosphere.