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Successful #mission to #satturn Cassini, Orbiter Cassini is the first successful orbiter mission to Saturn. It was launched in 1997 along with Huygens space probe, operated by NASA, European space agency and Italian space agency. The orbiter insertion of Cassini recorded on 1st July 2004. Since then Cassini orbiter continues to return streaming of data on daily basis. As by 1st July 2014 Cassini completed 10 successful years in Saturn...

New Horizons may be millions of miles past Pluto by now, but that doesn't mean the party's over.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space.

Esta nave espacial probará una órbita lunar elíptica única, a 1.600 km de un polo lunar en su paso cercano y a 70.000 km del otro cada siete días.

It’s the closest we’ve ever come to visiting a star.

The image above may seem like some kind of artist rendering, but it's an actual true color photograph showing Saturn, its rings, and one of its moons.

Saturn's moons Tethys and Titan, lower left, observed by the Cassini space probe on July 17, 2010. (NASA)

Whatever name it sailed under — International Sun-Earth Explorer 3, and International Cometary Explorer, among others --- this spacecraft has scored a number of firsts over the years, including the first comet flyby.