During Cassini's third orbit around Saturn, the Huygens Probe was successfully released on a trajectory that resulted in the probe entering Titan's atmosphere on January 14, 2005, making it both the most distant spacecraft landing and the first spacecraft to successfully land on the moon of another planet. This paper documents the reconstruction of both the orbiter and probe trajectoriespanning the Titan-B and Titan-C encounters.


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    Title :

    Orbit determination results and trajectory reconstruction for the Cassini/Huygens Mission


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Third International Planetary Probe Workshop, Anavyssos ; 2005 ; Attica, Greece


    Publication date :

    2005-06-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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