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| Cassini-Huygens Status Report - November 2007 |
| Mission Status 15 October 2007 was the tenth anniversary of the launch of Cassini-Huygens. The orbiter mission is progressing nominally and all operations are proceeding well.
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| Date: 08 Nov 2007 |
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| SPC Report May 2007 |
| The performance of the Cassini Orbiter is nominal and preparing for mission extension, which is expected to be announced by NASA in early summer. |
| Date: 23 May 2007 |
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| SPC Report November 2006 |
| The Cassini Orbiter mission continues smoothly. The planning for the extended mission beyond mid-2008 is well advanced. |
| Date: 10 Nov 2006 |
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| SPC Report May 2006 |
| The Cassini Orbiter continues to make significant discoveries around Saturn. A series of papers recently published in Science on the Enceladus observations revealed a moon which is as intriguing as Jupiter's moon Europa. Strong evidence has been found of the presence of liquid water in underground pockets near the South Pole. |
| Date: 22 May 2006 |
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| SPC Report February 2006 |
| Mission Status Huygens is now well into the detailed scientific data analysis and interpretation phase. The engineering analysis of the probe performance has been divided in two phases. The phase-1 engineering data analysis is terminated and all documentation has been made available by the Huygens industrial team and accepted by the Huygens Mission Team. The technical and scientific kick-off of the extended analysis (phase 2) took place during a data analysis workshop in Meudon on 11-13 January. |
| Date: 15 Feb 2006 |
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| SPC Report November 2005 |
| Operations
The Huygens Flight Operations activities are terminated and so the Huygens Probe Operations Center (HPOC) at ESOC is closing down. HPOC hardware and documentation will be shipped to ESTEC for respectively inventory and archiving. |
| Date: 28 Nov 2005 |
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| SPC Report April 2005 |
| Operations The Huygens Mission Operations Report was prepared by the Flight Control Team and was released in March. The analysis shows that the probe was in good health during the mission and all main events occurred as, and when, expected.
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| Date: 09 May 2005 |
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| No. 23 - First Science Results |
| On 14 January 2005 the Huygens mission finally became a reality. The probe made its susccesful descent through the atmosphere of Titan and to a landing on the surface of this distant moon.
Scientists have revealed their initial findings based on analysis of the Huygens data. For latest results visit saturn.esa.int. |
| Date: 14 Jan 2005 |
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| No. 22 - Huygens Lands on Titan! |
| Huygens has become the first mission to successfully land on the surface of Titan. The first data has now been received by mission control at ESOC. Updates can be found at saturn.esa.int. |
| Date: 14 Jan 2005 |
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| No. 21 - Huygens Closes In |
| The Huygens probe is just 24 hours away from entry into the upper atmosphere of Titan and the start of its 2.5 hour descent to the moon's surface.
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| Date: 13 Jan 2005 |
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| No. 20 - Waiting for Probe Descent |
| The Huygens spacecraft is closing on its final target and is now just under 48 hours away from its encounter with Saturn's moon Titan. |
| Date: 12 Jan 2005 |
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| No. 19 - Succesful Orbital Deflection Manoeuvre |
| The Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a getaway manoeuvre on 27 December 2004, to keep it from following the Huygens probe into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. This manoeuvre established the required geometry between the probe and the orbiter for radio communications during the probe descent. Huygens has no navigating capability, so the Cassini orbiter had been placed on a deliberate collision course with Titan to ensure the accurate delivery of the probe to Titan. |
| Date: 28 Dec 2004 |
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| No. 18 - Huygens Separation |
| At 02:00 UTC 25 December 2004 the Huygens probe successful separated from the Cassini spacecraft. This represents the start of the final phase of the Huygens mission - its descent to the surface of Titan. |
| Date: 25 Dec 2004 |
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| No. 17 - Successful Probe Targeting Manoeuvre |
| The Probe Targeting Manoeuvre (PTM) was successfully executed by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft during the night of Friday 17 December 2004. The burn start time was 02:30:11 UTC (Earth Received Time). The predicted burn duration was 85.1 seconds, for a total delta-V of 11.937 ms-1. A look at the telemetry immediately after the manoeuvre showed the burn duration was 84.9 seconds long, giving a delta-V of 11.9 ms-1. |
| Date: 20 Dec 2004 |
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| No. 16 - Successful Titan-B flyby |
| Monday, 13 December 2004, at 11:38 UT, Cassini-Huygens successfully executed its second targeted flyby of Saturn's largest moon Titan. At closest approach the spacecraft came to within 1200 kilometres of the moon's surface, allowing for observations at a similar resolution of those made during the first targeted encounter on 27 October 2004. |
| Date: 14 Dec 2004 |
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| No. 15 - Second Battery Depassivation |
| The second run of the Huygens Battery Depassivation sequence was successfully executed on 5 December. |
| Date: 07 Dec 2004 |
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| No. 14 - SPC Report November 2004 |
| Mission Status
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was successfully inserted in orbit around Saturn on 1 July and continues to perform nominally. On 30 June, coming from below, it crossed the rings with its High-Gain Antenna oriented such as to shield the most delicate parts of the spacecraft from being hit by ring particles. |
| Date: 29 Nov 2004 |
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| No. 13 - Successful Titan-A Flyby |
| At 03:30 UT, 27 October 2004 Cassini-Huygens spacecraft successfully executed its flyby of Titan at an altitude of around 1200 km. |
| Date: 27 Oct 2004 |
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| No. 12 - First Battery Depassivation |
| On 19 September 2004, at a distance of 1500 million kilometres (over 80 light minutes) from Earth, Huygens took another small but extremely important step towards achieving its ultimate goal: to probe the atmosphere of Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons and the second largest in the solar system. |
| Date: 23 Sep 2004 |
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| No. 11 - 15th Huygens Probe Checkout |
| The fifteenth Probe In-Flight Checkout was successfully executed on Tuesday 14 September 2004. As it is the last but one in-flight checkout planned before separation, it included some specific activities that are intended to prepare for Probe separation around Christmas this year. |
| Date: 17 Sep 2004 |
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