Cassini dropping into Saturn ENDED

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Cassini: The Grand Finale: Latest Status

[Xevross]

I want a death as majestic as Cassini

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Loss of signal. It's dead

[darkknightkryta]

What happened?  Do they have a replay?  Did it go through the core?  Does Saturn have land?

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What happened?  Do they have a replay?  Did it go through the core?  Does Saturn have land?

NasaTV has a replay but it's just the control center.

The ship has really low bandwidth so normally it takes days to send back images. They put it into live mode and could just get a little bit of data as it happened. Blew up ~45 seconds after loss of signal, probably.

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Juno will also be deorbited within the next 2 years.

Will be weird to have a near repeat of such an uncommon event so soon.

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