Adam and Ed, it appears you have keep up to date on this whole Blogger and Cassini higher ups thing.

Could you explain it to us who haven't?

When searching for information on T7 I get...

Tuesday, July 12 (DOY 193):

Last week at the Titan Atmosphere Model Working Group (TAMWG) telecon, the key topic of discussion was the appropriate altitude for the upcoming T7 flyby in September. Because of variations in atmospheric density observed to date, there is no consensus model to predict the atmospheric density to be encountered at T7. Use of worst-case density values indicate that the T5 altitude of 1025 km may not be safe for T7 with its far southern hemisphere latitude of closest approach, and might lead to spacecraft loss of attitude control and safing. The closer the spacecraft (S/C) gets to Titan, the greater the atmospheric torque applied to the spacecraft. At some point the atmosphere becomes dense enough that the S/C cannot maintain its orientation while flying through it. Then it executes safing and has to find the sun in order to regain its proper orientation so that it can communicate with Earth again. Safing terminates the executing sequence, so all science observations planned between the safing activity and when the sequence is resumed are lost. By raising the flyby altitude we essentially eliminate any chance of this happening because the atmosphere will be thinner.

Following the TAMWG meeting, a follow-on meeting was held to discuss the operational issues related to making this change. There were concerns expressed about trying to accommodate changes for S13 when the sequence is so close to completion and there is limited time available to implement changes. S13 is currently in the final development phase with sequence approval scheduled for July 21, and uplink beginning on July 27. However, a schedule for product deliveries was developed that would allow the changes to be accommodated, and the decision was made to proceed with the change. As of today the target altitude for the T7 flyby has been officially raised from 1,025 to 1,075 km. An updated reference trajectory will be delivered on 20 July for teams to begin making the necessary adjustments to S13 and S14.

Commands were sent to the spacecraft today to enable Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) sounder operations and to load an Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) flight software patch and instrument expanded block for Enceladus.

The S14 preliminary cycle 1 merged sequence products were released today for team review. These include files necessary for the live moveable block scheduled for that sequence. The cycle 2 products will be released on July 15 so that teams may check their pointing designs against the new reference trajectory to be released on July 20. Teams have only one chance in the cycle 2 phase to correct any flight rule violations or pointing designs caused by flying the new trajectory.