Cassini' Final Mission

• Sept. 15: Cassini's Final Entry into Saturn's Atmosphere begins at 10:44 a.m. UTC (3:44 a.m. PDT). Spacecraft loss of signal comes one minute later at 10:45 a.m. UTC (3:45 a.m. PDT).
• Sept. 15: Final signal received on Earth at about 5 a.m. PDT. 

*** Entry at 5:45am CST; final signal 7am CST

Video and Images

Video and images related to the Cassini mission are available at the following websites:

https://vimeo.com/album/4649677 and https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/Cassini-Huygens. (See also: Appendix – Video and images)

NASA Television

NASA Television Channels are digital C-band signals, carried by QPSK/DVB-S modulation on satellite Galaxy-13, transponder 11, at 127 degrees west longitude, with a downlink frequency of 3920 MHz, vertical polarization, data rate of 38.80 MHz, symbol rate of 28.0681 Mbps, and 3/4 FEC. A Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) is needed for reception. For NASA TV information and schedules on the Web, visit www.nasa.gov/ntv.

Live NASA TV programming on NASA’s public channel is available on the Web at

nasa.gov/live. The NASA TV media channel is available live at https://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-media-channel. Archived NASA TV programming is available soon after it airs at youtube.com/.

Additional Live Video Streams

Additional live streaming video will be available at youtube.com/nasajpl/live, ustream.tv/nasajpl, and ustream.tv/nasajpl2. Schedule details for these channels will be available at saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/grand-finale/for-media

Cassini on the Web

Cassini information -- including this press kit, news releases, fact sheets, mission details and background, status reports and images — is available on the web at https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/grandfinale and https://www.nasa.gov/cassini.

Mission updates are also available on Twitter (@CassiniSaturn), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NASACassini).