Cassini Equinox Mission
During the Equinox Mission, the Cassini spacecraft continued its tour of the Saturnian system and performed several close targeted fly-bys as well as many distant fly-bys of Saturn's moons. The targeted encounters are listed below and include 26 Titan fly-bys, 7 Enceladus fly-bys, and one fly-by each of the icy moons Dione, Rhea and Helene.
Details of the completed four-year nominal tour are available at the dedicated Prime Mission page linked from the right-hand side menu.
Saturn Moon Encounters
Orbit | Moon | Encounter Date* | Altitude (km) |
Completed | Info |
2008 | |||||
78 | Titan | 31 July | 1613 | Details | |
80 | Enceladus | 11 August | 54 | Details | |
88 | Enceladus | 9 October | 25 | Details | |
91 | Enceladus | 31 October | 197 | Details | |
91 | Titan | 3 November | 1100 | Details | |
93 | Titan | 19 November | 1023 | Details | |
95 | Titan | 5 December | 960 | Details | |
97 | Titan | 21 December | 970 | Details | |
2009 | |||||
102 | Titan | 7 February | 960 | Details | |
106 | Titan | 27 March | 960 | Details | |
108 | Titan | 3 April | 4150 | Details | |
109 | Titan | 20 April | 3600 | Details | |
110 | Titan | 5 May | 3244 | Details | |
111 | Titan | 21 May | 965 | Details | |
112 | Titan | 6 June | 965 | Details | |
113 | Titan | 22 June | 955 | Details | |
114 | Titan | 8 July | 965 | ||
115 | Titan | 24 July | 955 | ||
116 | Titan | 9 August | 970 | ||
117 | Titan | 25 August | 970 | ||
119 | Titan | 12 October | 1300 | ||
120 | Enceladus | 2 November | 103 | ||
121 | Enceladus | 20 November | 1603 | ||
122 | Titan | 11 December | 4850 | ||
123 | Titan | 28 December | 955 | ||
2010 | |||||
124 | Titan | 12 January | 1073 | ||
125 | Titan | 28 January | 7490 | ||
127 | Rhea | 2 March | 101 | ||
127 | Helene | 3 March | 1823 | ||
129 | Titan | 5 April | 7462 | ||
129 | Dione | 7 April | 503 | ||
130 | Enceladus | 27 April | 99 | ||
131 | Enceladus | 18 May | 198 | ||
131 | Titan | 19 May | 1400 | ||
132 | Titan | 4 June | 2044 | ||
133 | Titan | 21 June | 880 |
* The encounter date refers to the date of closest approach in UTC
Last Update: 1 September 2019