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Improved Saturn Positions Help Spacecraft Navigation, Planet Studies, Fundamental Physics

2015-01-09 02:35:33| rfglobalnet Home Page

Scientists have used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio-telescope system and NASA's Cassini spacecraft to measure the position of Saturn and its family of moons to within about a mile -- at a range of nearly a billion miles. This feat improves astronomers' knowledge of the dynamics of our Solar System and also benefits interplanetary spacecraft navigation and research on fundamental physics.

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