“You have this great pride in all you were able to accomplish,” said Earl Maize, Cassini project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “But it’s still an emotional loss.

“The spacecraft has been used to its fullest,” Cassini program manager Earl Maize of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said at a news conference Tuesday. “We will have it broadcast data ...

To protect Cassini from damaging encounters with dust or particles from Saturn’s rings, mission planners at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory had it fly through the previously unexplored region with ...

Controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a final command Friday morning to the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn. Not long after, accounting for the vast distance the message traveled ...

“Whenever I see images come back from Cassini, I can’t help but think of the role our propulsion played in making them possible, from the liquid rocket engines used to launch the spacecraft ...

Cassini project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We are going so deep into the atmosphere the spacecraft doesn't have a chance of coming out." "These final images ...

Cassini disintegrated into a ball of fire at 7:55 a.m. EDT. Flight controllers at California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory received one last burst of scientific data from Cassini before the radio ...

Two of Saturn's moons, Enceladus and Tethys, aligned themselves in what NASA called a ...

Translation: Cassini's engine had shut down and Cassini ... director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's going to be a huge leap in our understanding of the Saturnian system." ...

even at that distant fly by approach distance was enough to seal Cassini's fate," said Todd Barber, lead propulsion engineer on the Cassini Mission. That fate is for Cassini to crash down to ...

Silva, who lives in Garden Grove, joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge in 1996 as a test engineer, shaking and rattling bits of Cassini to ensure it could survive the arduo ...