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Spacecraft to crash into Saturn, begins dive towards planet
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Tuesday, 12 September, 2017
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the first-ever man-made object to go beyond Saturn's rings is headed towards its September 15 plunge into Saturn, following a final flyby of the planet's largest moon Titan. The flyby is dubbed "goodbye kiss" by mission engineers, providing gravitational assist to the spacecraft to crash into Saturn, thereby ending the $3.9-billion mission that lasted 20 years.
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