Cassini Spacecraft Bears Down on Saturn

Posted on: Jun. 11th, 2004 || Source: washingtonpost.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

LOS ANGELES - A hulking, 5,384-pound spacecraft is nearing the end of a seven-year voyage to Saturn, where it will begin an intensive study of the solar system's second-largest planet, its rings and the stable of moons that orbit it.



The $3.3 billion Cassini is on schedule to enter orbit around Saturn on June 30, shortly after it makes a dash through a gap in the shimmering rings that encircle a planet second to Jupiter in size.

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