Saturn images - Cassini

[Eric Mc]

Bye bye Cassini. She done good.

[anonymous-user]

Eric Mc said:

Bye bye Cassini. She done good.

She certainly did. Fantastic work by all involved.

[MartG]

Blipped then came back

[MartG]

Gone now

[Krikkit]

jmorgan said:

No point transmitting when it is not there. If there is a TWT in the system then best kept hot anyway?

Yeah, there's usually a wind-down for the TWT, but they were confirming data uplink for a bit anyway (presumably belt-and-braces).

The DSN's just gone dead, so that's it. Nice one Cassini, what a fantastic piece of kit.

[jmorgan]

Not familiar with the big stuff, if they follow the same rules as the smaller stuff then they just leave them on?

[funkyrobot]

RIP.

I feel genuinely sad. What a great spacecraft.

[jmorgan]

Worth a look
http://ciclops.org/ir_index/208/In-Orbit

[bitchstewie]

If it's not been posted https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/the-journey/grand-fina...

[skeeterm5]

I was genuinely emotional at the end. I have followed the mission for nigh on 15 years and it felt like losing an old friend.

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[Sylvaforever]

funkyrobot said:

RIP.

I feel genuinely sad. What a great spacecraft.

Yes indeed considering what it has shown us both visually and scientifically its a ignominious end.

An well.

https://youtu.be/kLTbBnBS3gE

Vol to 130%

[Eric Mc]

I think it was a great way to go - sort of like a Viking funeral.

[Toaster]

Eric Mc said:

Bye bye Cassini. She done good.

Agreed Cassini has done well, although.....Cassini is not a she, the spacecraft has no gender but if you were to assign one it would be after its name sake as he was a male astonomer

[Beati Dogu]

Cassini–Huygens to give it its full mission name. Both male of course.

However, I'm pretty sure that in the western tradition, even huge aircraft carriers named after male humans are still affectionately referred to as "she". It's only natural to continue this tradition on to space ships.

[Toaster]

Beati Dogu said:

Cassini–Huygens to give it its full mission name. Both male of course.

However, I'm pretty sure that in the western tradition, even huge aircraft carriers named after male humans are still affectionately referred to as "she". It's only natural to continue this tradition on to space ships.

Its a questionable tradition as both male and female terms are used, possibly the best way to describe of an inanimate object was in a scene with Ranulph Finnes. https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=...

[Beati Dogu]

No one else cares. Believe me.

[jmorgan]

Any road.

He/she/it gave us
"That is no Moon....."
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute


And A little piggy back experiment
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/titan/

NASA/JPL/ESA/University of Arizona
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07232

[Eric Mc]

I think we should credit Voyager 2 with the original Mimas/Death Star image -

[jmorgan]

I stand corrected.

[Toaster]

Beati Dogu said:

No one else cares. Believe me.

I doubt that or you telling me no one cares is true because clearly they do.You may have noticed the real scientists and engineers on the BBC program refer to Cassini by name or 'it' rather than giving Cassini a gender clearly there was a lot of affection for Cassini by the team but at no point was 'it' humanised......