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Moreover, the system could be the strongest known source of continual gravitational waves--eerie ripples in space-time that a planned orbiting observatory will chase.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft dove inside Saturn's rings for the first time on April 26, its first of 22 planned orbits close to the planet's atmosphere.

Cheers in Nasa control room as Juno space probe enters planned orbit of Jupiter to study solar system's largest planet.

"Operationally, this can mean that planned orbits may be modified, as they assumed a different mass and hence gravity field," explains Taylor.

The originally planned orbit is a 30 h-period elliptical orbit with the apoapsis altitude of ~ 13 Venus radii, while the current orbit is a 10.5-day-period elliptical orbit with the apoapsis altitude of 59 Venus radii.

Though the duty cycle of the lightning observation time in the present orbit is > 10 times less than that in the originally planned orbit of Akatsuki, continued operation over the coming years will provide a statistically robust dataset.

They plan to orbit Mars but never actually land.

China plans to orbit its own 60-tonne space station by 2020 and the purpose of the series of smaller Tiangong stations is to develop expertise in docking manoeuvres and longer term human spaceflight.

In all, the orbiter was able to use the satellite for 65 of the planned 89 orbits, and could make successful use of the connection on about forty.

In spite of other than planned satellite orbit and onboard systems failure about 11 telemetric files from VARIANT payload were obtained.

In Cassini's planned 76 orbits around the Saturn system, 44 are to be plotted to provide close encounters with Titan.