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


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    Title :

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


    Contributors:
    Bordi, J. (author) / Antreasian, P. (author) / Jones, J. (author) / Meek, C. (author) / Ionasescu, R. (author) / Roundhill, I. (author) / Roth, D. (author)

    Conference:

    3rd International Planetary Probe Workshop ; 2005 ; Attica, Greece


    Publication date :

    2005-06-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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