Cassini mission ends at Saturn
Date as reported
Cassini entered Saturn’s atmosphere in a planned final descent.
- Type
- mission end
- Category
- mission end
- Mission
- Cassini
- Organization
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Participants
- European Space Agency, Italian Space Agency
- Destination
- planet
- Target body
- Saturn
- Country
- US
Sources and attribution
- NASA HEASARC — High-energy astronomy history (opens in a new tab) — Factual summary; source attribution retained.