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BumRushDaShow

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10. Based on this from the OP link, it is now gone

Fri Sep 15, 2017, 06:35 AM

Sep 2017

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Cassini’s radio transmissions will disappear at 7:55 a.m. Eastern time, according to calculations by NASA engineers. The time of death at Saturn will actually have been one hour, 23 minutes earlier, but that is the time it takes the signals, moving at the speed of light, to travel the 1 billion miles that currently separate Saturn and Earth, picked up by radio telescopes in Australia and then sent to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory here.

and acknowledgement of it would happen at 7:55 am ET.

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Cassini Sends Final Images as It Plunges Toward Saturn [View all] Zorro Sep 2017 OP

Goodbye old friend. alfredo Sep 2017 #1

Thank you Cassini, RIP! burrowowl Sep 2017 #2

Oh dear. Somebody's chopping onions. longship Sep 2017 #3

well rtracey Sep 2017 #16

Going out in a blaze of glory hibbing Sep 2017 #4

NASA final orbits Cassini website link Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2017 #11

Poor little probe pokerfan Sep 2017 #5

Awww... calimary Sep 2017 #6

oh that's so sad.... :( :( :( renate Sep 2017 #8

He was my favorite, too... Rhiannon12866 Sep 2017 #9

As a friend said... eggplant Sep 2017 #7

Based on this from the OP link, it is now gone BumRushDaShow Sep 2017 #10

Although it probably didn't vocalize it, Cassini's last directive was... Girard442 Sep 2017 #12

exactly. paleotn Sep 2017 #13

......... paleotn Sep 2017 #14

Cassinni's probably feeling that after all the the info and pictures justhanginon Sep 2017 #15

It's final message... Javaman Sep 2017 #17

Signal Lost. Cassini has now disintegrated. Ghost Dog Sep 2017 #18

Mission Completed demmiblue Sep 2017 #19

Farewell, Cassini--and we thank you! lastlib Sep 2017 #20

Well Done, Cassini LonghornJack Sep 2017 #21

Some of the best $3.6b ever spent by our government. n/t Calista241 Sep 2017 #22