Cassini Demise is Dumb !
On 15-9-2017 1:22, SteveGG wrote:
Even if out of fuel, it still could have been made to orbit
indefinitely, until some future technology
was available to deal with it.
NO. In a multy-body system,orbits are unstable.
So even if you leave it alone, it will still hit something,
probably a moon, polluting it with live spores from earth.
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