I've been rather slack about this blog lately. Sorry folks.
The demands of December have been rather exacerbated with a wedding and what-not. Still, wishing you all out there all the best.
Cassini Goes to Saturn
Here's the link.
Cassini used springs to gently push the 705-pound probe away late Friday at a rate of one foot per second, sending it on a three-week free-fall toward Titan. Cassini will make a course change next week to avoid following the probe into the moon's atmosphere.
The probe's successful launch from Cassini put smiles on the faces of scientists in the control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. "This was a big one partly because we had to do this right or no mission at all," said David Southwood, the European Space Agency's science program director.
A detailed analysis of the release was under way, but there were no indications of any problems, said Earl Maize, the Cassini deputy program manager at JPL. "We are quite confident we had a very clean release," he said.
Best wishes to all Speacefreaks, known and unknown everywhere, whereever you are.
- Art Neuro
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