Cassini Space Craft

• After 20 years in Space, NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft has made its final death plunge in Saturn recently.
• It is a well planned demise to prevent any damage to Saturn’s ocean bearing moons Titan and Enceladus.
• Cassini was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1997 and it arrived in Saturn in 2004.
• It is a joint NASA-European space agency mission.
• It is the fourth space probe to visit Saturn (pioneer 11, Voyager1, Voyager 2) and the first to enter orbit.
• Its design includes a Saturn Orbiter and a Lander called “Huygens” for the moon Titan.
• The European Huygens landed on Saturn’s big moon Titan in 2005.
• This was the first landing ever accomplished in the outer solar system.