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• Cassini-Huygens

  12 Jan 2012

  Cassini-Huygens is the first mission to make a long-term study of Saturn, its moons, rings and complex magnetic environment.

• Chandrayaan-1

  18 Jan 2012

  Chandrayaan-1 is India's first unmanned mission to the Moon.

• Cluster

  17 Jan 2012

  Four Cluster satellites are orbiting the Earth in formation tens to thousands of kilometres apart. The spacecraft are examining the interaction between the solar wind - the stream of charged particles from the Sun - and the magnetosphere, the magnetic 'bubble' surrounding the Earth.

• CryoSat-2

  27 Jul 2012

  At 14:57 BST on Thursday 8 April 2010, the European Space Agency successfully launched its ice mission CryoSat-2 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

• Cubesats

  17 Nov 2011

  Tiny, fully-functional satellites, measuring 10cm³ and weighing 3-4kg.