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Titan’s new pole: Implications for the Huygens entry and descent trajectory and landing coordinates

Lebreton, Jean-Pierre; Atkinson, David H.; Kazeminejad, Bobby

The European Space Agency's Huygens probe separated from the NASA Cassini spacecraft on 25 December 2004, after having been attached for a 7-year interplanetary journey and three orbits around Saturn. The probe reached the predefined NASA/ESA interface point on 14 January 2005 at 09:05:52.523 (UTC). It performed a successful entry and descent sequ…