After 20 years and countless orbits, NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn has come to its fiery end. The space agency has confirmed that its Deep Space Network (DSN) tracking station at Canberra lost all radio contact with the unmanned deep space probe today at 7:55 am EDT as the spacecraft hit the atmosphere of the giant ringed planet at 70,000 mph (113,000 km/h), tumbled out of control and burned up like a meteor.
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