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ASI-NASA: other seven years for Cassini
Rome, Italy - The spacecraft works still perfectly, and the NASA approved the extension of budget until 2017
NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons to 2017. The agency's fiscal year 2011 budget provides a $ 60 million per year extension for continued study of the ringed planet. Cassini launched in October 1997 with the European Space Agency's Huygens probe. The spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004. The probe was equipped with six instruments to study...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency