Wednesday, August 02, 2006
The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn and headed for a sequence of close encounters with Titan, the planet's main moon, also appears aimed for an extensive stay at the ringed planet, the mission's chief says.
"The spacecraft is doing just remarkably well, performing practically flawlessly," says Cassini program boss Bob Mitchell of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Launched in 1997, the $3 billion international spacecraft here at Saturn just over two years ago, making a bold dash across the planet's rings to settle into orbit on a four-year mission.
At the mission's halfway point, the spacecraft launched the Huygens prod to Titan last year and has explored Saturn's rings in great detail, finding evidence of spokes and other unforeseen shapes in the planet's six bands.
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