Cassini Mission Emblem.
The Cassini program, operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States.
Preparing to encounter Spock aboard the USS Enterprise, Commander Michael Burnham momentarily thought back to early space exploration, including the Cassini program. (DIS: "Brother")
Saturn and one of its moons
A fictional mission insignia was created, and footage modified, to more closely mimic footage of mid-20th century NASA space programs. (citation needed • edit) In reality, the Cassini-Huygens mission (with a different mission patch) launched in 1997, a collaboration between NASA, the Italian and European Space Agencies, sending photos back from orbital insertion in 2004 to its intentional destruction in 2017.