| Title | The Final Phase of the Solstice Mission | |
| Date | Friday April 18 2014, @04:53AM | |
| Author | n1 | |
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| from the consulting-with-nasa-on-project-naming dept. | ||
In late 2016, our favorite Saturnian orbiter Cassini will commence the final phase of the Solstice Mission. Using Titan to alter its orbit with Saturn, Cassini will drop between the inner-most ring and the cloudy top of Saturn for 22 loops before finally entering the atmosphere.
An excellent writeup of the Cassini missions was posted in a guest blog at The Planetary Society by John Spencer, written near the beginning of 2009, John was unsure NASA would have funding for this final phase. Worry not, John! Everything looks good from here.
NASA has announced that (Surprise!) we can help choose the name of the final phase of the mission. All suggestions must be received by April 25, 2014. The current name is "Proximal Orbits", which I am fairly fond of, but only because if its high Scrabble score. NASA has provided a list of names, but none of them invoke any sense of awesomeness, so I hope we are able to come up with something better.
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