when Cassini first hit the tenuous parts of Saturn's atmosphere it was traveling at 123 000 kilometers per hour the remnants of cassini's fuel were deployed by its thrusters to keep cassini's antenna aimed at Earth at the at this point Cassini was 1900 kilometers above Saturn's clouds a minute later these thrusters were firing at maximum capacity to keep Cassini from spinning out of control cine was directly sampling Saturn's atmosphere but this atmosphere was also heating Cassini up just 10 seconds later the thrusters were overcome and Cassini began to Tumble cutting off communication with Earth seen his
onboard computers at this point would have been trying to figure out what was going wrong gyroscopes and star trackers would tell the computer that it is spinning and it would likely have gone into a safe mode to divert power in an attempt to write itself a minute or so later the spacecraft would have disintegrated altogether and burned up in Saturn's atmosphere
