Do you want to access to this and other private contents?
Log in if you are a subscriber or click here to request service

Space probe Cassini back on track

Pasedena, Usa - It will go on for Saturn

Just a 9,8 seconds engine ignition has been able to let Cassini space probe to come back on the right way to Saturn. Cassini mission, born from the co-operation among Nasa, Esa (European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency (Asi), started last October 1997, and from that day it covered more than 3000 billions kilometres. The space probe should reach Saturn orbit by July 1st 2004. (m...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 26088
Rome, Italy, 04/05/2002 10:58
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

Similar

AerospaceAirbus-Nasa: collaboration to monitor climate change from space

GRACE-C contract for two spacecraft awarded

Airbus has been awarded a contract to design and build the GRACE-C twin spacecraft by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL (Pasadena, California). This new mission of American Space Agency and the German o... more

AerospaceSpace X: Crew 8 mission launched

Dragon will dock with the space station tomorrow

On Sunday, March 3 at 10:53 pm ET, Falcon 9 launched Dragon’s eighth operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-8) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Spa... more

AerospaceERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

The satellite was launched almost 30 years ago, in 1995

At approximately 18:17 CET (17:17 UTC) on Wednesday 21 February 2024, ESA’s ERS-2 satellite completed its atmospheric reentry over the North Pacific Ocean. No damage to property has been reported.ESA’s sec... more