cassini made 155 orbits around saturn.
how many orbits did cassini make around saturn?
155
section::::"cassini" solstice mission (2010–2017).





























on 3 february 2010, nasa announced that a second mission extension until may 2017, a few months past saturn's summer solstice, had been funded. the schedule included an additional 155 orbits, with 54 flybys of titan, 11 of enceladus, 2 of rhea, and 3 of dione. one of the flybys of titan dipped below the ionosphere.





























section::::grand finale (2017).





























on 15 september 2017, "cassini" was deliberately disposed of via a controlled fall into saturn's atmosphere, ending its nearly two-decade-long mission. the last signal was received at 04:55:46 pdt.





























section::::detailed timeline of "huygens" mission.
timeline of cassini–huygens
"cassini-huygens" (launched 1997), which orbited saturn (from 2004-2017) performed flybys of many of saturn's moons including titan. "cassini-huygen"s had its first flyby of titan in october 2004. for further examples of "cassini" flybys of saturn's moons see timeline of "cassini-huygens".





























cassini conducted many flybys at various distances of the moons of saturn. it achieved 126 flybys of titan, and its final close flyby was on april 22, 2017 prior to its retirement.





























an animation of the "cassini" spacecraft trajectory around saturn over 10 years, during which it passed closely by many moons of saturn, is at right.





























section::::spacecraft flyby.:comets.
flyby (spaceflight)