« Graphene Nanoelectronics | News Picks home | Triumph of the medieval mind »

Nasa extends Cassini mission to Saturn

BBC NEWS: The US space agency (Nasa) has extended the international Cassini-Huygens mission by two years.

The unmanned Cassini-Huygens spacecraft entered orbit around Saturn in 2004 on a mission that was supposed to come to an end in July this year.

The two-year mission extension will encompass some 60 extra orbits of Saturn and more flybys of its moons.

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Before submitting your comment, please enter the security code displayed below; this prevents spambots from hijacking The News Picks blog. (If you submit a comment without entering the security code, you will see a "Comment Submission Error" message; please use your back button to go back, enter the code, and re-submit your comment).



COMPANY SPOTLIGHT