No one can ever say that Cassini went quietly into its good night.
At about 7:55 a.m. ET on Friday, mission controllers on Earth got official word that the Cassini spacecraft — a joint operation of NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency — had burned up in Saturn's atmosphere, vaporizing in about one minute. Cassini is now a part of the world it explored for 13 years.
"We have loss of signal," one of the mission managers said, as Cassini's final dispatch from Saturn ended.
Its fiery death comes as no surprise. Read more...
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