Cassini Fires Engine to Raise Orbit
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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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NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft successfully photographed one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system on Tuesday in a flyby that brought it within 745 miles of Saturn&#39;s hazy moon Titan.
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The international Cassini spacecraft began unveiling Saturn&#39;s mysterious sidekick Titan with a stream of increasingly sharp pictures of the surface taken during a flyby within 745 miles (1,198 kilometers) of the hazy moon.
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A piloted rocket ship race to claim a &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize purse for privately financed flight to the edge of space is heating up.
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A privately funded spacecraft appeared to rocket past its target altitude more than 60 miles above California&#39;s high desert yesterday
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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.
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The hunt for Earth-like planets is to be stepped-up as a new mission, Corot, prepares for launch.
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The fastest-aiming space science observatory ever built rocketed into orbit Saturday to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions that astronomers
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By Bill Geroux, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Dec. 16--WALLOPS ISLAND A 69-foot Minotaur I rocket lifted off from Virginia's Eastern Shore at dawn today on a brilliant plume of white flame and delivered two satellites safely into orbit.
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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 released one of the best pictures ever made of Saturn's moon Titan as the Cassini spacecraft begins a close-up inspection of the satellite today. Cassini is making the nearest flyby ever of the smog-shrouded moon.
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By JOHN JOHNSON JR.  SAN FRANCISCO - The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has found a mile-high mountain range on the giant moon Titan, scientists said.  The range, which lies in the moon's southern hemisphere, is nearly 100 miles long.
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Europe's "super rocket" which can lift multiple and heavier satellites into orbit prepares for its first trip to space.
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The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Goldstone tracking station on Wednesday, November 3. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally.
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The international Cassini spacecraft began unveiling Saturn&#39;s mysterious sidekick Titan with a stream of increasingly sharp pictures of the surface taken during a flyby within 745 miles of the hazy moon.
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The study of Titan, Saturn&#39;s largest moon, will be one of the Cassini spacecraft&#39;s central goals. The probe will execute 45 close flybys during its four-year mission, with the first Tuesday morning.
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Cassini is just now speeding past Titan in her first close approach to Saturn&#39;s enigmatic moon. With her instruments pointed at the planet, she cannot communicate with Earth, so Cassini&#39;s