Cassini

Cassini — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Cassini in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

Cassini orbited Saturn for thirteen years before its “Grand Finale” dive into the planet, transforming our view of its rings, storms and ocean moons.

Launched

15 Oct 1997

Status

Mission ended 2017 — plunged into Saturn

Explore Cassini in 3D

Explore Cassini along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.