03 September 2015
Cassini discovers potentially ‘younger’ ring portion on Saturn
.... Although Galileo first observed them in 1610 (he quite confused by them), there is still no consensus as to how they formed. Cassini will make a final series of close approaches to Saturn soon – which may give us more information on the rings...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... last two years (though many spacecraft famously go on to extend their initial missions by a considerable amount, including Kepler, Cassini and Voyager 1 and 2 to name just a few). During this period, the satellite will survey nearly the...
May 2021
NASA’s women of inspiration
... BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and MS and PhD from MIT, to then working on several missions including Cassini to Saturn and GRAIL. She is currently the Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) Operations Lead for Perseverance which involves...
March 2016
Space for art
...’ icy jets and their role in creating Saturn’s E-ring is one of the top findings of the Cassini mission to Saturn. Further Cassini mission discoveries revealed strong evidence of a global ocean and the first signs of potential hydrothermal activity...
28 October 2020
Unexpected molecule found in Titan's atmosphere
... through research papers published from analyses of data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, to double check it was really C3H2 that the team were seeing. Cassini made 127 close flybys of Titan between 2004 and 2017 and...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... to participate in ESA scientific programmes with Polish-built equipment included in almost every flagship research mission by ESA (Cassini-Huygens, Integral, Mars Express, Rosetta, Venus Express and Herschel). POLSA must also create conditions for...
