RIP, Cassini: Historic Mission Ends with Fiery Plunge into Saturn - Space.com
Space.com | RIP, Cassini: Historic Mission Ends with Fiery Plunge into Saturn Space.com NASA received its last data transmission from the Cassini spacecraft at 4:55:46 a.m. PDT (7:55:46 a.m. EDT, 1146 GMT) today (Sept. 15), before losing contact with the probe as it hurtled into Saturn's atmosphere. It was a fiery grand finale for the ... Cassini finale: Saturn space probe completes its fiery demise NASA's groundbreaking Cassini probe is dead after 20 years of exploring Saturn on nuclear power What's next for NASA as Cassini's mission comes to a close |