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End is nigh for Nasa's Cassini as it heads for crash landing on Saturn
Nasa’s Cassini mission to Saturn is entering its final week. On 15 September, it will dive towards the planet and burn up in its atmosphere. Nasa have called it the grand finale. Cassini is one of the most ambitious space missions. It is a collaboration between Nasa, ESA and the Italian space agency, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. The spacecraft, launched on 15 October 1997, took seven years to travel through the solar system to Saturn, which lies about 10 times further from the Sun than Earth.
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I'd enjoy a video stream of this.
Sadly, this is 20 year old technology and no matter how much we hope, and wish, and pray, we won't get what most of us have taken for granted these days. Live stream of this would be amazing though, maybe in 20-30 years!
Yup. So very true. C'est la vie.