NASA Cassini Significant Events 06/03/09 – 06/09/09

The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on June 9 from the Deep Space Network tracking complex at Canberra, Australia. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally. Information on the present position and speed of the Cassini spacecraft may be found on the “Present Position” page at: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/presentposition/.

Wednesday, June 3 (DOY 154)

Science observations for today were few, but ran for long durations. Imaging Science (ISS) observed the rotation light curve for Kiviuq, one of the satellites of Saturn, for 10h34m. The Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) then mosaicked Saturn