Cassini spacecraft's end of mission Friday 15th September 2017

[Halcyon]

After nearly 20 years in space, Cassini will be plunging into Saturn's atmosphere this Friday. The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex will be tracking Cassini's final 9 hours where loss of signal is expected about 1155H 15/09/2017 UTC. Earlier today, Cassini's RADAR was switched off. The following instruments will remain on during the final plunge:

• Gas Spectrometer & Magnetosphere Imager
• IR & UV Spectrometers
• Dust Analyser
• Magnetometer
• Radio & Plasma Wave Antennas
• Radio Science

We should receive the final radio signals back at Earth about 1 hour and 42 minutes after transmission stops from Saturn.


https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

[Halcyon]

Cassini is gone. For those who still want to go back and watch, the live feed allows you to "rewind"