Cassini Earth SwingBy

[Tad Blanchard <Tad.M.Blanchard.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Just a note,

The Cassini spacecraft carrying 72 pounds of plutonium will be passing by
the earth on Tuesday, August 17th, at approximately 11PM EDT.  

Everyone put on their hard hats.  (just kidding)

Trajectory looks good.  The spacecraft will be coming within 2000 miles of
Earth to use its gravitational field to speed up the craft on its mission
to Saturn.



Tad Blanchard                   NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
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