And once in orbit, Cassini-Huygens had 75 minutes to take pictures of Saturn and its rings before it turned again to point the antenna forward for its second transit through the ring gap.

Cassini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter orbit. During its first four years around Saturn, it conducted a detailed reconnaissance of the exotic planet, its rings ...

PASADENA, Calif. - After seven years of hurtling through space to the outer solar system, the U.S.-European Cassini spacecraft squeezed through a gap in Saturn's shimmering rings, fired its brakes ...

Using Titan, Cassini’s orbit could be stretched out, farther from Saturn — for example, to send the spacecraft toward the distant moon Iapetus.

Launched in 1997, NASA's Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit seven years later and studied the planet until 2017. The mission was the first in-depth study of the planet, its rings and moons.

Cassini began its new mission phase, called its Ring-Grazing Orbits, on Nov. 30. Each of these weeklong orbits — 20 in all — carries the spacecraft high above Saturn’s northern hemisphere ...

CICLOPS: Cassini Imagining Central Laboratory For Operations View special release close-up images of Saturn’s ring after Cassini slipped into the planet’s orbit. Cassini’s Voyage ...

The Cassini-Huygens mission blasted off 10 years ago this week, with the goal of putting a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. True to its mission, Cassini parked itself three and a half years ago ...

Sunday, April 27 (DOY 117) Cassini reached apoapsis of its Saturn orbit, having slowed to 7,125 kilometers per hour relative to the planet. This marked the start of Cassini’s orbit #204.

Launched in 1997, NASA's Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit seven years later and studied the planet until 2017. The mission was the first in-depth study of the planet, its rings and moons.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Just hours after swooping into orbit around Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft sent "absolutely mind-blowing" images of the giant planet's rings back to Earth early Thursday.