Ip: Naming the mission "Cassini" was quite natural after the Galileo mission to Jupiter. Especially because it would rally the support of France, which is a key member of ESA. Gautier: Early in ...

The agreed scenario involves shortening Cassini ... its original orbital plan in mid-February 2005. “In any complex space mission problems may arise,” said John Credland, Head of ESA ...

By 1988, then-NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications agreed that NASA would commit to a Saturn mission with ESA as long as ESA chose the Cassini mission from the three ...

The operations of the Cassini spacecraft, part of the international NASA/ ESA/ ASI Cassini-Huygens mission ... “When we designed the original tour, we really did not know what we would find ...