Mission Timeline

As of October 2025, the mission schedule is as follows:

Main mission milestones and phases

  • Ministerial Conference: End 2025
  • Mission definition phase: 2026 – 2034
  • Mission adoption: ~2034
  • Implementation phase: 2035 – 2042
  • Launch: ~2042
  • Arrival at Saturn: 2053
  • Tour of Saturn moons, plume sampling: 2053 - 2058
  • Landing on Enceladus: 2058

 

L4 Preliminary Mission Timeline

 

Post-launch mission phases

  • Launch: ~2042
  • Rendezvous (RDV) phase: 0.5 - 1.5 years
  • Interplanetary transfer: <10 years
  • Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI) & Perigee Raising Maneuver (PRM): 0.9 years
  • Titan Gravity Assists (TGAs) & Enceladus flybys: 1.3 years
  • Moon tour: 2.7 years
  • Landing site reconnaissance: 1 month
  • Surface operations: 1 month
  • Disposal: TBD