Huygens News

28 December 2004: Probe imaging

25 December 2004: Huygens Probe has been successfully released by Cassini and is on its way to Titan!

21 December 2004: Huygens Mission Timer Unit loading executed successfully

17 December 2004: Successfull Probe Targeting Manoeuvre

16 December 2004: Huygens in 3D and Fun for Kids

13 December 2004: Successfull Tb flyby

10 December 2004: [ESA press release] VLBI experiment

7 December 2004: [ESA press release] Huygens to begin its final journey to Titan

5 December 2004: Successful battery depassivation #2.

3 December 2004: Go decision for primary mission.

23 November 2004: Successful Huygens 16th flight checkout

4 November 2004: [ESA press release] The day of descent

3 Novembre 2003: Link to the event "Au dela de la Terre", at Paris Observatory.

28 October 2004: Enter the Planetary Society's Cassini-Huygens art contest

26 October 2004: Successful Titan flyby

22 October 2004: Start of the Huygens Mission Readiness Review

21 Octobre 2004: Science communication documentation on Livelink [secured]

6 October 2004: New folder on Livelink on the Huygens Mission Readiness Review [secured]

19 September 2004: The battery depassivation#1 activity was successfully executed.

17 September 2004: [ESA press release] Huygens test #15 successful

14 September 2004: Flight Check Out #15

13 September 2004: [Data Archive] Start of the document (Experiment to Archive ICD) review

2 September 2004: [ESA press release][French] Le réveil d'Huygens

14 July 2004: Flight Check Out #14

7 July 2004: Successful battery depassivation test at ESOC

3 July 2004: First Titan flyby.

'Raw' images from the first Cassini-Huygens Titan fly-by

1 July 2004: >>>Successful Cassini-Huygens Saturn Orbit Insertion<<<

[ESA press release] Cassini-Huygens enters orbit around the ringed planet

20 March 2004: PCO #13

1st March 2004: In-flight probe relay demonstration between Feruaryb 29 and March 4

18 February 2004: Updated Huygens Calendar.

12 December 2003: The Year 5 (July 2002- June 2003) Annual Report of the NASA Astrobiology Institute on-line at the NAI website. In particular, you may read the report of the focus group on Titan.

10 December 2003: Astronomy picture of the day!

8 December 2003: Next DWTG/HSWT meetings at Goddard on March 23-24-25 2004.

8 December 2003: The POSW, GCMS and HASI preheating patches have all been loaded successfully
aboard the Huygens FM and authorisation has been given to uplink the two in-flight checkout sequences (m040ba & m040ca) during tomorrow's pass over Madrid (DSS 63), for execution on-board Cassini on DoY 343 and 347 respectively.

5 December: Release of the latest image of Saturn by the Cassini Imaging Team

2-13 December 2003: PRT #6 Test

30 Sept. - 3 Oct. 2003: DTWG/HSTW meetings in Graz

22 Sept. 2003: Successfull PCO #12

18 Sept. 2003: Probe Checkout # 12

27 August 2003: [ESA Press Release] How to drop on Titan

July-August 2003: EM preheating validation campaign

7 June 2003: HASI Balloon flight in Sicily

3 May 2003: Probe Checkout # 11