Cassini-Huygens
COSPAR 1997-061A · NORAD 25008
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Mission
- Agency
- NASA
- Launch date
- 1997-10-15
- Status (SATCAT)
- decayed
- Decay date
- 2017-09-15
- Launch site code
- AFETR
- Owner code
- US
- COSPAR ID
- 1997-061A
- NORAD ID
- 25,008
Source:NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Orbit center code
- SA
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It re-entered the atmosphere on 2017-09-15 (CelesTrak).
- CelesTrak lists Saturn as its orbit center — it worked at Saturn, not at Earth.
- Someone born in its launch year (1997) turns 29 this year.
Worked out from this object's official values.