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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been ready to die for a very long time. The mission, which launched in 1997 to study Saturn and its moons, was supposed to end in 2008. Then it was supposed to call ...

Cassini has logged 4.9 billion miles, captured 453,048 images and resulted in the publication of 3,948 research papers. Though Cassini became one of NASA’s most successful exploratory projects ...

The Cassini mission has been an unequivocal success — but its fate was not always certain. This is the story of how it got off the ground, told by the people who were there.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took seven years to travel nearly 2.2 billion miles to reach Saturn. But once it got there in 2004, it started taking some breathtaking pictures of the planet, its ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Linda Spilker checks the clock: 12:04 p.m. As the NASA scientist sits in this crowded conference room on the Caltech campus, the aging Saturn orbiter Cassini is flying past ...

"Cassini has been collecting data for 13 years," Lunine says. "It will be useful basically forever, and people will be using it to make discoveries long after the people who collected it are dead." ...

Cassini will make its first pass at around 5AM ET on April 26th, collecting data and using its antenna as a shield against any particles. The spacecraft will then send a message to Earth nearly a ...

Cassini program manager Earl Maize, left, and spacecraft operations team manager for the Cassini mission at Saturn, Julie Webster, right, embrace after the Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn.

Cassini has provided exquisite details about the second-largest planet in our solar system. Take the hurricanes at Saturn's poles, for example.