Cassini enters Saturn orbit
Date as reported
Cassini became the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn.
- Category
- Mission Operations and Milestones
- Type
- Orbit insertion
- Mission
- Cassini
- Organization
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Participants
- European Space Agency, Italian Space Agency
- Destination
- planet
- Target body
- Saturn
- Country
- US
Sources and attribution
- ESA — Cassini-Huygens overview (opens in a new tab) — Factual summary; source attribution retained.