Years ago, Daughter and I used to attend the annual, three-day Astronomy weekend held at Oxford University, hosted by Robert Lambourne, and I can remember a speaker doing a talk about the Cassini mission there.
There was a live broadcast from NASA of the final moments as the signal finally disappeared. I have to say, it was actually very moving. All those people who have worked years on the mission and then it ends with a final wink of the carrier signal as the spaceship plunges into the atmosphere of Saturn and begins to break apart.
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