Cassini to Die

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Called Cassini-Huygens — or Cassini, for short — the golden nuclear-powered spacecraft launched in October 1997, fell into orbit around the gas giant in July 2004, and has been documenting the planet and its dizzying variety of moons ever since.

But all good things must come to an end. And for NASA's $3.26 billion probe, that day is Friday, September 15, 2017.

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@edgarblythe,

I guess we do have a "prime Directive". (Not to screw with the possible development of life elsewhere). So theyre gonna flame it into reentry onto Saturn, so that it doesnt hit any possible life containing satellites of Saturn. I didnt realize that there were still people who were assigned to this space probe FULL TIME.

I hope they have a career fallback

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@edgarblythe,

So, Ed, has Cass done anything atall to resolve the TwiPar

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