Cassini Spaceflight
Cassini Spaceflight
This Demonstration shows an animation of the flight of the Cassini spacecraft's mission to Saturn. This spacecraft used a technique called gravitational assist four times—twice with Venus on April 26, 1998 and June 24, 1999, once with the Earth on August 18, 1999 and once with Jupiter on December 30, 2000. Saturn orbit insertion occured on July 01, 2004.
The orbits of the planets have the following colors: Mercury: orange, Venus: brown, Earth: blue, Mars: red, Jupiter: brown, Saturn: gray.