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Watch as NASA's Cassini spacecraft sends its last signal to Earth (CNET News)

2017-09-15
you're watching live coverage of Cassini's final hour from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL is located in lucky on a flint mission Pasadena and managed by the California Institute of Technology let's take a look at our last our display or display shows that we are just over seven minutes away from the end of mission yeah radio signals still holding 30 seconds systems leave mission planning correctness and lettings spacecraft has just crossed ten degrees north latitude altitude 1,000 miles copy thank you project manager flight director go ahead okay we call loss a signal loss of X fan and Casso signal at 1 1 5 5 4 6 4 the SVN so that would be the end of the spacecraft project manager on FS awkward maybe a trickle of telemetry left but just heard the signal from the spacecraft just go on and within the next 45 seconds so will be the spacecraft I hope you're all as deeply proud of this amazing accomplishment congratulations to you all this has been an incredible mission an incredible spacecraft and you're all an incredible team I'm going to call this the end of mission project manager off the net
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