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/63/ The Cassini Mission to Saturn
This episode is about the Cassini Mission to Saturn. We talk with Nora Kelly Alonge, a Project Science System Engineer and Science Planning Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In the episode we cover the Cassini spacecraft’s structure and sensors (and its lander, Huygens), some of the relevant science, as well as the challenge of coordinating science and engineering requirements on the mission.
- NASA JPL
- Caltech
- Cassini Mission
- Cassini Spacecraft
- Huygens
- Saturn (Planet)
- Jupiter (Planet)
- Titan (Moon)
- Enceladus (Moon)
- Gravity assist
- ESA
- Titan (Rocket)
- Galileo Mission
- Uranus (Planet)
- Neptune (Planet)
- Doppler Effect
- Star Tracker
- Reaction Wheel
- Huygens landing (video)
- Huygens landing II (video)
- Radioisotope thermoelectric generator
- Deep Space Network
- Voyager program
- Viking program
- Pioneer program
- Saturn’s “Storm Alley”
- Storm on Saturn
- The Hexagon
- Mimas (Moon)
- PDS
Posted: April 18th, 2011 under podcast, podcast (en).
Tags: astronomy, NASA, planets, space
Comments
Comment from admin
Time May 4, 2011 at 8:27 pm
thanks Keith :-)
Comment from Geoffrey
Time December 6, 2012 at 10:15 am
Another great interview. There’s quite a bit of solar exploration going on at the moment. Thanks for all your efforts. Much appreciated.
Comment from Keith
Time May 3, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Fantastic episode! I was worried that it was so long it might get boring, but that was never the case. Fascinating subject, and great preparation and questions.