The Cassini space probe was deliberately disposed of via a controlled fall into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, 2017, ending its nearly two-decade-long...
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loss of contact with it. One notable example of spacecraft retirement is Cassini's retirement in 2017. The first spacecraft to be retired was the Soviet...
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(Johnson) P/2006 VW139 C/2017 O1 (ASASSN) 96P/Machholz Space exploration Cassini retirement (impacted into Saturn; Sep 2017) OSIRIS-REx (Earth gravity assist;...
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Saturn (section Cassini–Huygens spacecraft)
observatories like the Hubble Space Telescope) and, until its 2017 retirement, from the Cassini orbiter around Saturn. Saturn has been known since prehistoric...
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Huygens (spacecraft) (category Cassini–Huygens)
the European Space Agency (ESA), launched by NASA, it was part of the Cassini–Huygens mission and became the first spacecraft to land on Titan and the...
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Cassini retirement, Saturn, 9.4°N 15 W, 15 September 2017, at the southern edge of the North Equatorial Belt (itself approximately 15,000 km wide); the...
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(Johnson) P/2006 VW139 C/2017 O1 (ASASSN) 96P/Machholz Space exploration Cassini retirement (impacted into Saturn; Sep 2017) OSIRIS-REx (Earth gravity assist;...
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(Johnson) P/2006 VW139 C/2017 O1 (ASASSN) 96P/Machholz Space exploration Cassini retirement (impacted into Saturn; Sep 2017) OSIRIS-REx (Earth gravity assist;...
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Barbara Walters (section Retirement)
She also started producing for TV host Igor Cassini (Cholly Knickerbocker), but left the network after Cassini pressured her to marry him and started a fistfight...
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Flyby (spaceflight) (section Cassini)
its final close flyby was on April 22, 2017 prior to its retirement. An animation of the Cassini spacecraft trajectory around Saturn over 10 years, during...
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