A joint NASA/ESA mission to explore the Saturnian system, including Saturn's atmosphere, rings and magnetosphere, and some of its moons - Titan and the icy satellites.The spacecraft comprise NASA's Cassini Orbiter and ESA's Hugyens Probe
			The orbiter is named after Jean-Dominique Cassini (1625-1712), a French-Italian astronomer who identified the gap between Saturn's rings (the Cassini division) The Probe is named after Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695), a Dutch astronomer who discovered the Saturn's rings and, in 1655, its largest moon Titan.
	Type		3-axis stabilized Three radio-isotope thermo-electric generators
	Mass		Launch mass Orbiter + Probe: 5.82 tonnes. Orbiter: 365 kg science payload. Huygens probe: 319 kg (+ 30 kg in Orbiter), science payload 44 kg
	Size		Orbiter: 6.8 meters high, maximum diameter of the high-gain antenna (HGA) primary reflector: 4 meters Huygens probe: 2.7 m (shield)
(Cassini Orbiter)
	Optical Remote Sensing		Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) Imaging Science Subsystems (ISS) Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS)
	Microwave Remote Sensing		Cassini Radar (RADAR) Radio Science Subsystem (RSS)
	Fields, Particles, and Waves		Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) Dual Technique Magnetometer (MAG) Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI) Radio & Plasma Wave Science (RPWS)
	Interdisciplinary Science		Magnetosphere and Plasma (IDS - Blanc) Rings and Dust (IDS - Cuzzi) Magnetosphere and Plasma (IDS - Gombosi) Atmospheres (IDS - Owen) Satellites (IDS - Soderblom) Aeronomy and Solar Wind Interaction (IDS - Strobel)
(Huygens Probe)	NASI		The Huygens Atmosphere Instrument
	GCMS		Gas Chromatograph and Mass Spectrometer
	ACP		Aerosol Collector and Pyrolyser
	DSR		Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer
	DWP		Doppler Wind Experiment
	SSP		Surface-Science Package
	Date		Cape Canaveral, 15 October 1997
	Vehicle		Titan-IVB/Centaur
			To reach Saturn, Cassini/Huygens used a series of gravity-assist manoeuvers, with the following swingbys: · Venus 27 April 1998 · Venus 24 June 1999 · Earth 18 August 1999 · Jupiter 30 December 2000
			Cassini Orbiter: Mission and Science Operations from Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena. Communication through NASA's Deep Space Network Huygens probe operations are managed by the Huygens Probe Operations Center (HPOC), located in ESOC,Darmstadt, Germany.