Saturn Probes
| Spacecraft | Organization | Date | Type | Status | Notes | Image | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer 11 | NASA | 1 September 1979 | flyby | success | previously visited Jupiter | |||
| Voyager 1 | NASA | 12 November 1980 | flyby | success | previously visited Jupiter | |||
| Voyager 2 | NASA | 5 August 1981 | flyby | success | previously visited Jupiter, went on to visit Uranus and Neptune | |||
| Cassini | NASA/ ESA/ ASI |
1 July 2004 – | orbiter | success | also performed flybys of a number of Saturn's moons, and deployed the Huygens Titan lander; first spacecraft to orbit Saturn | |||
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“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)