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There was budgetary drama in 2013–14 about NASA receiving U.S. government funding for the Grand Finale. The two phases of the Grand Finale ended up being the equivalent of having two separate Discovery Program-class missions in that the Grand Finale was completely different from the main Cassini regular mission. The U.S. government in late ...
View of Saturn from Cassini, taken in March 2004, shortly before the spacecraft's orbital insertion in July 2004. This article provides a timeline of the Cassini–Huygens mission (commonly called Cassini). Cassini was a collaboration between the United States' NASA, the European Space Agency ("ESA"), and the Italian Space Agency ("ASI") to send a probe to study the Saturnian system, including ...
Cassini–Huygens (/ k ə ˈ s iː n i ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z / kə-SEE-nee HOY-gənz), commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its groundbreaking 13-year mission to Saturn on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the ringed planet's atmosphere.
Cassini has run low on propellant, and will become an artificial meteor at Saturn on Friday morning as it plunges to its death. NASA is now receiving the last photos ever taken by the Cassini ...
This is a list of cancellations and terminations made by NASA. Program terminations ... New Millennium Program - 2009; ... Space Interferometry Mission - 2010;
NASA: Orbiter Cancelled Canceled after NASA approved the Europa Clipper mission. [52] It was intended to study Europa, Io, and Jupiter's magnetosphere. [53] 12 Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter: Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter: 2020 Ariane 5: ESA: Orbiter Cancelled Canceled after being superseded by the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission in a vote. [54]
Pages in category "Cancelled space missions" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... List of NASA cancellations; P. Project Harvest Moon; S.