Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The planned end of mission for Cassini is disposal by a controlled fall into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, 2017. This method was chosen because it is imperative to ensure protection and prevent biological contamination to any of the moons of Saturn now thought to offer potential habitability environments.However, this plan was chosen prior to future planetary flagship missions being put on hold indefinitely in 2013. Factors that can have an impact on the mission end method are the amount of rocket fuel it has left, the health of the spacecraft, and funding for operations on Earth.Some possibilities for Cassini's later stages were aerobraking into orbit around Titan, leaving the Saturn system, or making close approaches and/or changing its orbit. For example, it could collect solar wind data in a heliocentric orbit."@en }
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- Cassini–Huygens_retirement abstract "The planned end of mission for Cassini is disposal by a controlled fall into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, 2017. This method was chosen because it is imperative to ensure protection and prevent biological contamination to any of the moons of Saturn now thought to offer potential habitability environments.However, this plan was chosen prior to future planetary flagship missions being put on hold indefinitely in 2013. Factors that can have an impact on the mission end method are the amount of rocket fuel it has left, the health of the spacecraft, and funding for operations on Earth.Some possibilities for Cassini's later stages were aerobraking into orbit around Titan, leaving the Saturn system, or making close approaches and/or changing its orbit. For example, it could collect solar wind data in a heliocentric orbit.".