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December 2004 – Huygens Probe Released

December 2004 - Huygens Probe Concept Art
The Huygens probe onboard Cassini is released to explore Titan and its surface. Prior to its release, the Deep Space Network (DSN) showed that the probe had an anomaly. This was found by rigging an antenna in Goldstone, California to look to Cassini like the Huygens probe did. The DSN team then designed a new trajectory for Cassini-Huygens that…

The Huygens probe onboard Cassini is released to explore Titan and its surface. Prior to its release, the Deep Space Network (DSN) showed that the probe had an anomaly. This was found by rigging an antenna in Goldstone, California to look to Cassini like the Huygens probe did. The DSN team then designed a new trajectory for Cassini-Huygens that kept the signal from getting in the way of the Doppler and signal regimes that kept causing the problems. Huygens eventually landed on the surface of Titan 21 days later.

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