May 27, 2004

Dwayne Brown 
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1726)

Carolina Martinez
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(Phone: 818/354-9382)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N04-078

SPACECRAFT PREPARES TO RING SATURN

NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) officials will discuss the 
Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission at a press briefing next Thursday at 
10 a.m. EDT. The briefing is in the NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 
E Street SW, Washington. 

Panelists will discuss the mission, and the challenging maneuver to 
place the spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. Panelists:

– – Dr. Ed Weiler, NASA's Associate Administrator for 
Space Science, Washington. 
– – Orlando Figueroa, Director, Solar System Exploration 
Division, NASA Headquarters.
– – Dr. Charles Elachi, Director, NASA Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory (JPL), Team Leader for the Cassini Radar Instrument, 
Pasadena, Calif.
– –Robert Mitchell, JPL Cassini Program Manager.
– –Dr. Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA Huygens Probe Project 
Manager.

NASA TV will carry the briefing live available on AMC-9, transponder 
9C, C-Band, located at 85 degrees west longitude. The frequency is 
3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 
MHz; with two-way question-and-answer capability from participating 
NASA centers. For listen-only service call: 321/867-1220/1240/1260. 
The briefing will be webcast live at: 

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

For information about the Cassini mission on the Internet, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/cassini 

	
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