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Some questions that Doug Ellison, or that other JPL employee might answer, whatshisname?

Hi!
Since Cassini is in an elliptical orbit around Saturn,
I was wondering...

(1) Is it possible for the Cassini spacecraft to receive gravitational assists
from its moons to attain escape-velocity eventually, if that were deliberately planned and desired?

(2) If Cassini can be gravitionally-boosted by the moons of Saturn
to Saturnian escape-velocity, after the primary mission is over,
could ity receive additional gravitational-assists, from Saturn itself, to redirect it to (3) Uranus?...or (4) to that asteroid/comet nuclei, Chiron?

Jacob

"We choose to go to the moon before the end of this decade, and do those OTHER THINGS, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." John F Kennedy

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