Scientists and individuals from 27 countries made up the joint team responsible for designing, building, flying and collecting data from the Cassini orbiter and the Huygens probe.
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Cassini–Huygens's origins date to 1982, when the European Science Foundation and the American National Academy of Sciences formed a working group to investigate future … See more

Summary
Instruments:
• Optical Remote Sensing ("Located on the remote sensing pallet")
• Fields, Particles and Waves (mostly in situ)
• Microwave … See more

The mission consisted of two main elements: the ASI/NASA Cassini orbiter, named for the Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, … See more

Cassini had several objectives, including:
• Determining the three-dimensional structure and dynamic behavior of the rings of Saturn.
• Determining … See more

The spacecraft was planned to be the second three-axis stabilized, RTG-powered Mariner Mark II, a class of spacecraft developed for missions beyond the orbit of Mars, after the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) mission, but budget … See more

Because of Saturn's distance from the Sun, solar arrays were not feasible as power sources for this space probe. To generate enough power, such arrays would have been too … See more