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Cassini-Huygens Saturn Orbit Insertion Imminent

Posted by simoniker on from the saturnz-return dept.

Anonymous Explorer writes "Fresh off of its fly-by with the Saturnian satellite Phoebe, the Cassini-Huygens craft is set for Saturn Orbit Insertion on June 30, 2004. Cassini-Huygens has a planned four year mission ahead for Saturn and its many moons. With 450 watts of power for the electronics, this mission has plenty enough horses to run the stretch with plenty-o-pep to spare. Thanks to all that power, and the plethora of electronics on Cassini and the Huygens probe, we can now hear sounds from Saturn. Pretty cool stuff! Festivities are scheduled to begin on June 29th with a broadcast of Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion Press Conference on Nasa TV. SOI [PDF link] will occur after Cassini fires its main engine for 96 minutes, in order to slow down and be grabbed by the pull of Saturn. As always we extend an invitation to everyone to join #cassini on irc.freenode.net and help us celebrate this historic mission."

2 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. Saturn by garbs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sounds Boring

  2. Re:Victory of SCIENCE over ECOIDIOLOGY by ch-chuck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I pick neither.

    Yeah, like here in the middle, where I am God.

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