NASA has announced the launch target for Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) 2nd Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration flight will be Feb. 7, 2012, pending completion for the final safety reviews, testing and verification on NASA Hunger. NASA also has agreed to allow SpaceX to send its Dragon spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) in a single flight.

NASA says its Cassini spacecraft will soon be making its closest pass over Saturn's moon Dione, and observing the atmosphere of Titan, In an action-packed day and a half, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making its closest swoop over the surface of Saturn's moon Dione and scrutinizing the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea, returning raw images of the icy moon's surface. A quartet of Saturn's moons, from tiny to huge, surround and are embedded within the planet's rings in this Cassini composition.