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The Grand Finale: Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn
Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans ...
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25 years ago: Cassini-Huygens launches for Saturn - Astronomy Magazine
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft showed us a new view of the Saturn system. But it took a long road to get there, from mission development to its launch 25 years ago.
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Cassini First to Orbit Saturn - The Washington Post
PASADENA, Calif., July 1 -- The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft hurtled through the rings of Saturn and settled into planetary orbit late Wednesday, putting a pinpoint finish to a bold 2 billion-mile ...
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Cassini-Huygens spacecraft begins systematic exploration of Saturn system
The successful passage of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft through Saturn’s rings June 30-July 1 sets the stage for an unprecedented four-year exploration of the second largest planet in the solar ...
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Goodbye Cassini: NASA spacecraft makes 'death plunge' into Saturn's atmosphere - Fox News
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made its dramatic ‘death plunge’ into Saturn’s atmosphere Friday, ending an epic 20-year space journey. As expected, Cassini made its final signal to Earth around ...
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‘OK. Let’s do it!’ An oral history of how NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn came to be - Los Angeles Times
Cassini set off for Saturn on Oct. 15, 1997, and spent seven years looping around the solar system before it finally reached its destination. Since then, the two-story spacecraft has revealed that ...
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Huygens Loses Communication Line With Cassini Spacecraft
This story was updated at 9:31 a.m. EST. DARMSTADT. Germany -- Europe's Huygens descent probe will deliver its promised data on Saturn's moon, Titan, despite the loss of one of two communications ...
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Cassini-Huygens: 10 Years and Going Strong - WIRED
credit Image: NASADione and the Rings description Ten years ago Monday, NASA and the European Space Agency launched the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was the ...
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Cassini’s Final Mission: Solve the Mysteries of Saturn’s Rings - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal
After 20 years in space, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft made its suicide plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15. For the team of scientists who began working on the project in the 1980s, ...
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Farewell Cassini: Saturn Spacecraft Makes Fiery, Final Dive
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn on Friday in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory, following a remarkable journey of 20 years ...
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Before plunging to its death, NASA's Cassini spacecraft saw secrets in the seas of Saturn's moon Titan | Space
NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft may have dramatically ended its 20-year mission to explore Saturn's neighborhood seven years ago, when it plunged to into the gas giant, but it is still ...