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Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
A distant pass, jointly observing the planet with the orbiting Galileo while gaining the last energy the cruise needed. Encounter class: flyby.
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Subjects
- Cassini–Huygens · mission · not located
- Jupiter · celestial body · not located
Evidence
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Cassini–Huygens mission archive
Launch, Jupiter flyby, Saturn orbit insertion, the Huygens Titan landing and the 2017 Grand Finale.
NASA / ESA · Partly verified
NASA Cassini archive · ESA Huygens mission pages
Recorded on Cassini–Huygens
- Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
- Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
- Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
- Active volcanism found on Io
- Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
- Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter
- Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
- Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission
- Cassini enters orbit around Saturn
- Huygens lands on Titan — the only landing on an outer-system moon
- New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
- Juno enters polar orbit around Jupiter
- Cassini’s Grand Finale — flown into Saturn to end the mission
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- New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter · 2007-02-28
- Huygens lands on Titan — the only landing on an outer-system moon · 2005-01-14
- Cassini enters orbit around Saturn · 2004-07-01
- Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission · 2003-09-21
- Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter · 1995-12-07
- Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter · 1979-07-09