the spaceprobe that is currently orbiting saturn is called cassini.
the spaceprobe that is currently orbiting saturn is called cassini.
the spaceprobe that is currently orbiting saturn is called?
cassini
launched aboard a titan ivb/centaur on october 15, 1997, "cassini" was active in space for nearly 20 years, with 13 years spent orbiting saturn and studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on july 1, 2004. the voyage to saturn included flybys of venus (april 1998 and july 1999), earth (august 1999), the asteroid 2685 masursky, and jupiter (december 2000). the mission ended on september 15, 2017, when "cassini's" trajectory took it into saturn's upper atmosphere and it burned up in order to prevent any risk of contaminating saturn's moons, which might have offered habitable environments to stowaway terrestrial microbes on the spacecraft. the mission is widely perceived to have been successful beyond expectations. nasa's planetary science division director, jim green, described "cassini-huygens" as a "mission of firsts", that has revolutionized human understanding of the saturn system, including its moons and rings, and our understanding of where life might be found in the solar system.
cassini–huygens
bullet::::- "starhunter 2300" canadian sci-fi tv series. many episodes of this series take place in part of the saturn system, designated as "saturn federation." the spaceship carrying the main characters is the trans-utopian, which travels frequently between saturn, jupiter and mars. various moons of saturn are mentioned, including titan and iapetus. there is also a large space station orbiting saturn at which the trans-utopian docks, called "ring-shepherd."









































bullet::::- in the novel "the true meaning of smekday", the boov, after leaving earth, colonize one of saturn's moons. it is "a bit of a fixer-upper", though.
saturn's moons in fiction