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A probe called Cassini spent thirteen years orbiting Saturn, flew through the plumes of its ...

SpaceDaily 06 Jul 2026
For thirteen years, a spacecraft called Cassini circled Saturn ... Cassini reached Saturn in 2004, after a seven-year journey from Earth, and spent the next thirteen years orbiting the planet ... Cassini did ...
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Saturn’s rings may be far younger than the planet itself — Cassini-era estimates have placed ...

SpaceDaily 04 Jul 2026
But one of the stranger conclusions to come out of the Cassini mission is that the rings may be much younger than Saturn, and perhaps young enough that they were absent for much of dinosaur history ... Cassini weighed the evidence.
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Meet the 2026 CASSINI Challenges winners (GSA - European GNSS Agency)

Public Technologies 30 Jun 2026
The wait is over! CASSINI Challenges 2026 have officially announced its winners ... Winners will be officially celebrated at the CASSINI Entrepreneurship Days 2026, taking place on 30 September to 1 ...
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In 2008, Cassini skimmed past Enceladus’s south pole and flew straight through a plume of ...

SpaceDaily 27 Jun 2026
Cassini’s 2008 pass through Enceladus’s south polar plume lasted only minutes ... Cassini turned that suspicion into a new picture of the moon. In 2005, Cassini observed jets of water-rich material erupting from the south polar region.
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CASSINI in action: some space start-ups in the spotlight (GSA - European GNSS Agency)

Public Technologies 17 Jun 2026
CASSINI, the initiative for entrepreneurship launched by the European Commission and implemented by EUSPA, is built to turn promising ideas into viable space businesses ... 3L Robotics has been a consistent presence within the CASSINI ecosystem.
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CASSINI Entrepreneurship Days 2026: Built in Europe. Built to Last! (GSA - European GNSS Agency)

Public Technologies 08 Jun 2026
On 30 September - 1 October, Save the Date and join us in Prague for the CASSINI Entrepreneurship Days 2026! ... Organised under the framework of the EU space institutions, the Cassini Entrepreneurship Days stand apart from conventional startup events.
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The Cassini spacecraft was deliberately flown into Saturn in 2017 because NASA refused to risk ...

SpaceDaily 23 May 2026
On September 15, 2017, Cassini ended its life exactly where mission planners had sent it ... That mattered because Cassini had changed the way scientists thought about Saturn’s moons ... Cassini was not being thrown away because it had stopped mattering.
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The Cassini spacecraft was deliberately flown into Saturn in 2017 because its fuel was running ...

SpaceDaily 18 May 2026
The Cassini orbiter was destroyed on purpose ... Cassini launched in 1997 and took seven years to reach Saturn, arriving in 2004 ... In September 2017, Cassini made its final flyby of Titan ... Cassini entered Saturn’s atmosphere falling at high speed.
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The complete story of Cassini-Huygens: how a twenty-year mission to Saturn rewrote what we thought ...

SpaceDaily 28 Apr 2026
I keep a folder on my laptop labeled “missions that justified themselves.” Cassini-Huygens lives at the top of it ... That’s what Cassini did ... Cassini-Huygens was not a single experiment ... Cassini-Huygens is the template.
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