NASA’s Cassini probe has broken apart in Saturn’s atmosphere — ending its 20-year journey

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been vaporized. The probe dove into Saturn’s upper atmosphere this morning, and NASA lost the vehicle’s signal at 7:55AM ET, indicating it had broken apart irrevocably during its rapid descent toward the planet. Cassini’s demise officially puts an end to the probe’s 13-year mission at Saturn and wraps up a 20-year tour traveling through space.
It all went more or less like NASA had intended. The mission team behind Cassini has planned t