NASA has published a video dedicated to the completion of the mission station
The footage of the video of the ceremony has given the main stages of the life of the device, which was first able to transfer the images taken by the probe between Saturn and its rings. It says that Cassini will die in September.
It is noted that the mission of the spacecraft came to an end as it exhausted the fuel supply. He will have time to make another 20 turns in orbit of the planet, and then disappear forever.
The station was launched on 15 October 1997 together with the probe “Huygens”. June 30, 2004, the station reached Saturn and became the first artificial satellite of this planet, and six months later, the probe descended on Titan. She Cassini continued to study the gas giant.
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