NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flies between Saturn and its rings in historic first

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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flies between Saturn and its rings in historic first
Marcia Dunn, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 12:18 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 12:28 PM EDT
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has ventured into the never-before-explored region between Saturn and its rings.
But flight controllers won’t know how everything went until Thursday when they are back in touch with the craft.
Cassini was out of radio contact with Earth early Wednesday as it became the first spacecraft to enter the gap between Saturn and its rings. That’s because its big dish antenna was manoeuvred face forward to protect science instruments from potentially damaging ring particles.
If Cassini survives this first round, it will make 21 more crossings before its demise in September.
Launched in 1997, Cassini has been orbiting Saturn since 2004. Because the fuel tank is practically empty, NASA decided on one last dangerous, but science-rich adventure.
This NASA handout illustration obtained April 6, 2017 shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission's grand finale. (AFP PHOTO/NASA/JPL-CALTECH/Handout)


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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flies between Saturn and its rings in historic first
 
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Merica!
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Cassini–Huygens's origins date to 1982, when the European Science Foundation and the American National Academy of Sciences formed a working group to investigate future cooperative missions. Two European scientists suggested a paired Saturn Orbiter and Titan Probe as a possible joint mission. In 1983, NASA's Solar System Exploration Committee recommended the same Orbiter and Probe pair as a core NASA project. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) performed a joint study of the potential mission from 1984 to 1985. ESA continued with its own study in 1986, while the American astronaut Sally Ride, in her influential 1987 report NASA Leadership and America's Future in Space, also examined and approved of the Cassini mission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini–Huygens

Fukking Ignorant Yankees..

Boycott The USA!!
 
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Where's Jack Cade? I wanna hear him claim that Cassini is really a Briddish project.

B00Mer said:
Cassini–Huygens's origins date to 1982, when the European Science Foundation and the American National Academy of Sciences formed a working group to investigate future cooperative missions. Two European scientists suggested a paired Saturn Orbiter and Titan Probe as a possible joint mission. In 1983, NASA's Solar System Exploration Committee recommended the same Orbiter and Probe pair as a core NASA project. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) performed a joint study of the potential mission from 1984 to 1985. ESA continued with its own study in 1986, while the American astronaut Sally Ride, in her influential 1987 report NASA Leadership and America's Future in Space, also examined and approved of the Cassini mission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini–Huygens

Fukking Ignorant Yankees..

Boycott The USA!!
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Forget it. We already have Jack Cade's drunk, stupid cousin Dougie.
 
B00Mer

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EagleSmack said:
You're trolling on a Canadian site.

psst... the servers are located in the US.

BOOM!
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Interesting response coming from a Grunt..

The Nameserver ns-577.awsdns-08.net have a IP Address of 205.251.194.65 which is hosted on United States.

Yet the name is CanadianContent.net, the the theme is Canadian in nature.. :canada:

It's to bad that it's not hosted in Canada, because Canada has made it more difficult to obtain or pull information off of servers, where in the USA DHS can access the servers pretty much without a warrant in the name of National Security under the Patriot Act.
 
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Interesting and correct.

B00Mer...You could never hang with us Grunts.



Stick to driving trucks like the rests of the POGs.
 
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