Cassini Spacecraft's Last Chapter Ended With a Suicidal Plunge Into Saturn Spacecraft remain the best lens with which humans have viewed the universe beyond Earth. These spacecraft are dedicated to ...

Read all about Cassini's "Grand Finale" and its Sept. 15 suicide plunge. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ... The $3.2 billion Cassini-Huygens mission — a joint effort of NASA, ...

The Cassini spacecraft spent 20 years exploring Saturn, revealing incredible details about its rings, moons, and atmosphere. ... What did Cassini-Huygens achieve before its Grand Finale.

"From its launch in 1997 to the unique Grand Finale science of 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission has racked up a remarkable list of achievements." Request Reprint & Licensing Submit Correction ...

Cassini-Huygens launched on Oct. 15, 1997 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ... In November 2016, Cassini kicked off its "grand finale" with the first of 20 ring dives.

NASA Cassini-Huygens is about to start grand finale. An curved arrow pointing ... NASA will fly its $3.26 billion Cassini spacecraft where no spacecraft has flown before — in the deepest ...

After 20 years in space, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will make its suicide plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15. WSJ talks to the scientists behind the project that led to never-before ...

Cassini-Huygens was the much-beloved Saturn orbiter whose life spanned nearly 19 years, including 13 around the ringed world. It revolutionized the way that we think about the planet.

Space Cassini's Grand Finale: The spacecraft that unveiled Saturn. From magical rings to loony moons to giant polar hurricanes, in 13 years orbiting Saturn the Cassini probe has exposed many wonders.

At 7am Eastern Time on Friday, September 15, the Cassini probe, which launched in October of 1997, will be making its final journey as it enters into Saturn's atmosphere. Along the way, it will ...

Now, as the principal investigator on CU Boulder’s $12 million Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) on the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, Esposito and his Cassini colleagues are feeling a bit ...

After 20 years in space, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft made its suicide plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15. For the team of scientists who began working on the project in the 1980s, it ...