Nisar proves that international space partnerships can be complementary. Its model is a blueprint for future collaborations.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a joint project of NASA and the European and Italian space agencies. It was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 1997 to study Saturn and its rings and moons.

Missions to moons In 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens spacecraft (part of the joint NASA-ESA Cassini-Huygens mission) gave us the first glimpse of what lay beneath the thick, orange-yellow ...

At 7 a.m. EDT, NASA will broadcast from mission control as Cassini transmits its final data before burning up in Saturn's atmosphere. Watch it here.

As the the probe moves closer, more details and moons should come into view. Cassini-Huygens is a joint European-Nasa mission. Cassini is due to enter Saturn's orbit on July 1, 2004.

Imperial’s Professor Michele Dougherty will be the first woman to hold this position since its creation.Michele Dougherty, Professor of Space Physics in Imperial's Department of Physics, has been ...