Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans ...

The Cassini spacecraft pulled off its final mission after 20 years in space, and collected data as it crashed into Saturn’s atmosphere. Read all about Cassini's "Grand Finale" and its Sept. 15 ...

The Cassini spacecraft is going where no ship has gone before: On Wednesday, it begins a series of dives into the space between Saturn and its magnificent rings.

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On September 15, 2017, the 20-year Cassini mission ended in a "death dive" into Saturn's upper atmosphere, collecting data until the spacecraft broke apart and became part of the planet it set out ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft broke up in Saturn's atmosphere this morning, bringing an end to its historic 13-year mission at the ringed planet that was marked by incredible discoveries.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus while making its way to Saturn. Taking advantage Venus's gravity, Cassini gained ...

The view was taken in visible light using the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of 394,000 miles (634,000 kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is about 11 miles (17 kilometers).

NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its first dive between Saturn and its rings early Wednesday, as the final act in a nearly 20-year mission. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption ...

The Cassini spacecraft snapped this panorama of Saturn— actually a mosaic of dozens of photographs taken over eight hours —just after the ringed planet's equinox, which occurs once every 15 ...

For a spacecraft much farther away from the Sun than the Earth, db/dt is not very different from the Earth's velocity v E = 30 km s-1.In the Cassini solar conjunction the peak value of y gr is 6 ...