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Italian ASI: Happy birthday Cassini; the mission celebrates 10 years today

Rome, Italy - The Italian Space Agency is one of the partner with NASA and ESA

The Cassini probe departed ten years ago from the Earth to overfly the ice rings of Saturn and then to land on its surface: thanks to this mission, a joint project of NASA, ESA and ASI, hundreds of gigabytes of scientific data and more 3000 reports are available today. Cassini, with on board the ESA Huygens probe, arrived in the Saturn system for a mission that predicted an initial duration of...

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Rome, Italy, 06/29/2014 23:12
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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