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Dark Matter Identified, Cassini at Saturn and Orion Capsule Drop test Live Footage
On June 30, 2004 (PDT), as mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory held their collective breath, the international Cassini-Huygens mission successfully arrived in orbit around Saturn. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft delivered the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe to Titan in early 2005. Cassini completed its four-year primary mission in 2008 and went on to perform dozens more flybys of Titan, Enceladus and Saturn’s other icy moons through its 10th anniversary in 2014. The mission may continue through 2017.
The next generation capsule was dropped from 35,000 feet and free fell for 10 seconds, before deploying parachutes and landing in desert of the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. The test occurred on June 25th, 2014.
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