CASSINI SAFE

Controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory expect to resume normal operations on the Cassini spacecraft this week after the Saturn probe automatically kicked into safe mode last Monday, apparently because its star tracker lost its bearings during a routine navigation maneuver. The spacecraft...

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