A new NASA video looks back at the Cassini spacecraft's arrival at Saturn, which happened 10 years ago next week.
The Cassini flashback video, which NASA released June 24, shows the tense scene at mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on the night of June 30, 2004, as the probe prepared to execute a crucial engine burn that would allow it to enter orbit around Saturn.
This was a huge moment — one that the mission team had been waiting for since Cassini launched in October 1997.
"The flight team is in place for SOI — that is, Saturn orbit insertion," the mission commentator said at the time, as captured in the new NASA video. "That is when the spacecraft must be captured by Saturn's gravity, or it will fly right on past the planet and the mission will be over." Read more...
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