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Scientific paper
Feb 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994esabu..77...21h&link_type=abstract
ESA Bulletin (ISSN 0376-4265), no. 77, p. 21-30
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Cassini Mission, European Space Agency, International Cooperation, Mission Planning, Parachute Descent, Spacecraft Design, Electronic Modules, Instrument Packages, Spacecraft Structures
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Huygens is the ESA-provided element of Cassini/Huygens, the joint NASA/ESA planetary mission to the Saturnian System. Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is a major target of the mission. The Saturn Orbiter is to be provided by NASA, with a significant contribution from the Italian Space Agency under a bilateral NASA/ASI agreement. The spacecraft will be launched in October 1997, with Huygens attached to the Saturn Orbiter. Released from the mother spacecraft after a seven-year-long interplanetary journey to Saturn, the Huygens Probe will plunge into Titan in late 2004. Huygens is designed to enter and brake in Titan's atmosphere in order to parachute a fully-instrumented robotic laboratory down to its surface. From the scientific viewpoint, the main Huygens mission phase, which is designed to last 2 to 2.5 hours, will be the parachute descent through Titan's atmosphere. Scientific measurements will also be performed during the entry phase, which will last just a few minutes. The Probe resources are sized to allow scientific measurements even after it has impacted on Titan's surface for at least a few minutes. The Probe's radio link will be activated early in the descent phase and the data will be relayed to the Cassini Orbiter for on-board storage and subsequent transmission to Earth.
Hassan H.
McCarthy Carolyn Cordwell
Wyn-Roberts D.
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