RTGs powered Viking 1 and Viking 2 with 85 watts total, Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 with 165 watts total, and Cassini with three RTGs delivering 888 watts.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory has directed the Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, Mars Exploration Rover, Perseverance, and Europa Clipper programs and missions.
The Digital Space Ecosystem includes a section for European Union funding opportunities, including those accessible through CASSINI.
The European Commission’s CASSINI initiative is supported by instruments worth a total of 1 billion euros for startups and SMEs in the space economy.
Andrius Kubilius highlighted the role of laser technologies developed by the Lithuanian startup Astrolight during a visit to projects supported by the European Cassini programme.
CASSINI is a program dedicated to the space market alongside InvestEU.
Cassini precisely measured Saturn’s internal mass distribution near the end of its mission.
Cassini’s data showed Saturn’s mass is slightly more concentrated toward its center than previously expected.
Cassini's observations recorded a single, hexagonal-shaped polar vortex at Saturn's north pole measuring about 18,000 miles wide.
The Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn for 13 years and intentionally burned up in Saturn's atmosphere in 2017.
In 2008, researchers concluded from Cassini data that Titan's deformations implied a global subsurface ocean.
Petricca derived Titan's tidal behavior by tracking shifts in the frequency of Cassini's radio signal during close flybys.
Cassini provided detailed gravity and radio-tracking data on Saturn and its 274 known moons, including Titan.
Cassini completed its flyby of Enceladus and continued exploring Saturn for another decade before the mission's conclusion.
The study focused on particles collected by Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyzer during a rapid flyby.
Le aziende danesi hanno ottenuto quasi 50 milioni di euro attraverso iniziative della CASSINI.
DSS-14 has supported missions for various spacecraft, including the Pioneer series, Cassini, and Mars rovers.
Cassini detected many organic molecules in the ice grains, including precursors for amino acids.
The ice grains that Cassini detected were the freshest and fastest ever recorded by the spacecraft.
Discoveries from Cassini are valuable for planning a future European Space Agency mission dedicated to Enceladus.