The Cassini orbiter around Saturn is in its final stages of its death spiral into Saturn's atmosphere. This follows a series of orbits which had it go between the rings and the planet surface.
The spacecraft was launched back in 1997, and has been orbiting the ringed planet since late 2004.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dea ... plishments
NASA is running a death-watch on their social media platforms.
RIP (soon) Cassini
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