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

LMFAO - I'm not a JPL employee :) I'm a medical animator from Leicester in the UK!!

FWIW - Cassini is tied into the Saturnian system afaik - it's used up the vast majority of it's fuel supply and whilst a considerable number of Titan flypasts could alter it's trajectory considerably, it's unlikely it could attain an escape velocity.

Real question is - when you've designed, built, and spent 7 years fly a probe to specifically to investigate Saturn - why would you want to leave :) Plans are for at least a 4 year primary mission and almost certainly considerable extensions on top of that thru to the next decade.

Doug

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