Thursday, February 4, 2010

Saturn Mission 'Extended Again'

Cassini completed its initial four year mission to explore Saturn in June 2008.

From The BBC:

The US space agency (Nasa) has extended the international Cassini-Huygens mission once again.


The unmanned Cassini-Huygens probe arrived at Saturn in 2004 on a mission that was meant to come to end in 2008.

The mission had already been extended by two years; potentially, the Cassini spacecraft could now explore the Saturn system until 2017.

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