The Cassini Mission to Saturn

This episode is about the Cassini Mission to Saturn. We talk with Nora Kelly Alonge, a Project Science System Engineer and Science Planning Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In the episode we cover the Cassini spacecraft's structure and sensors (and its lander, Huygens), some of the relevant science, as well as the challenge of coordinating science and engineering requirements on the mission.

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• NASA JPL
• Caltech
• Cassini Mission
• Cassini Spacecraft
• Huygens
• Saturn (Planet)
• Jupiter (Planet)
• Titan (Moon)
• Enceladus (Moon)
• Gravity assist
• ESA
• Titan (Rocket)
• Galileo Mission
• Uranus (Planet)
• Neptune (Planet)
• Doppler Effect
• Star Tracker
• Reaction Wheel
• Huygens landing (video)
• Huygens landing II (video)
• Radioisotope thermoelectric generator
• Deep Space Network
• Voyager program
• Viking program
• Pioneer program
• Saturn’s “Storm Alley”
• Storm on Saturn
• The Hexagon
• Mimas (Moon)
• PDS