All facts about Cassini

[maxer27]

Flight of Venus – on April 26, 1998 in 234 km and on June 24, 1999 in 600 km; 

Flight of Earth – on August 18, 1999 in 1171 km; 

Flight of Jupiter – on December 30, 2000 in 10 million km; 

Arrival to Saturn – on July 1, 2004; 

Descent of Huygens to Titanium – on December 24, 2004 – on January 14, 2005; 

Parameters: 

The sizes – 6,7 meter by 4 meters; 

Weight at start – 5 712 kg (with Huygens and fuel); 

Weight at the end of a mission – 2 125 kg; 

It is used fuels – 2950 kg from 2978 kg; 

Power – 885 W at the beginning and 633 W by the end of a mission; 

Number of scientific tools – 12 (is more detHas collected by NASA all most interesting facts about Cassini in the short line. The mission approaches end, on September 15 the device will burn down in the atmosphere of Saturn. It is a high time to sum up some result. 

Milestones: 

Start – on October 15, 1997 from Cape Canaveral on the Titan of IVB/Centaur rocket; ailed - https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft/cassin.); 

Mission: 

It is executed teams – 2,5 million; 

It is brought together given – 635 GB; 

Flights of Saturn – 293 by the end of a mission; 

Flights at satellites – 162; 

Flights at the Titan – 127; 

Flights at Enceladus – 23; 

Photos it is made – 453048; 

Starts of the engine – 183; 

Scientific articles it is published – 3948; 

Mission duration – the main – 4 years, "Equinox" - 2 years, "Solstice" - 7 years; 

The passable way – 7,8 billion km; 

Speed concerning Saturn at the end of a mission – 111637 km/h; 

The number of the people working with a mission – more than 5 thousand people; 

Mission cost – 3,9 billion dollars (2,5 billion – expenses before start-up and on start-up, 1,4 billion – expenses after start-up).

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[jarhead01]

is there a date for final dive into saturn?

[cesmak]

A few days remaining... 15th of september. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2017/public-invited-to-goddard-to-celebrate-cassini-grand-finale

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