Cassini/Huygens: A mission to Saturn and Titan

The Cassini/Huygens mission is designed to explore the Saturnian system. The Cassini spacecraft comprises a NASA provided Saturn orbiter and an ESA supplied Titan atmospheric probe named Huygens. The scientific objectives of the mission are described and the main characteristics of the payload are provided. Since emphasis is on ESA's contribution to the mission, a detailed description of the Huygens probe mission phase is given and the major features of the probe design are discussed. An overview of the probe operations center is provided.