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Article: ESA plans probe for U.S. Titan mission. (European Space Agency)
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- December 3, 1988
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ESA plans probe for U.S. Titan mission
A proposed NASA mission that would orbit Saturn and send a probe to the surface of its big, possibly ocean-covered moon Titan got a boost from the European Space Agency (ESA) last week. Called Cassini, the mission has yet to win White House or congressional approval, but ESA nonetheless chose development of the Titan probe as its next major scientific project.
Scheduled for launch in April 1996, Cassini would go into orbit around Saturn in October of 2002, releasing the probe about three months later to descend through Titan's largely nitrogen atmosphere, possibly 60 percent more dense at the surface than Earth's ...