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Flight mechanics from NASA’s Jet Propulsion  Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., lower the Cassini spacecraft onto its launch vehicle  adapter in KSC’s  Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The adapter will later be mated  to a Titan IV/Centaur expendable launch vehicle that will lift Cassini into space.  Scheduled for launch in October, the Cassini mission, a joint US-European four-year  orbital surveillance of Saturn's atmosphere and magnetosphere, its rings, and its moons,  seeks insight into the origins and evolution of the early solar system. It will take seven  years for the spacecraft to reach Saturn. JPL is managing the Cassini project for NASA KSC-97PC1110

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Flight mechanics from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., lower the Cassini spacecraft onto its launch vehicle adapter in KSC’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The adapter will later be mated to a Titan IV/Centaur expendable launch vehicle that will lift Cassini into space. Scheduled for launch in October, the Cassini mission, a joint US-European four-year orbital surveillance of Saturn's atmosphere and magnetosphere, its rings, and its moons, seeks insight into the origins and evolution of the early solar system. It will take seven years for the spacecraft to reach Saturn. JPL is managing the Cassini project for NASA KSC-97PC1110

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Flight mechanics from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., lower the Cassini spacecraft onto its launch vehicle adapter in KSC’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The adapter will later be mated to a Titan IV/Centaur expendable launch vehicle that will lift Cassini into space. Scheduled for launch in October, the Cassini mission, a joint US-European four-year orbital surveillance of Saturn's atmosphere and magnetosphere, its rings, and its moons, seeks insight into the origins and evolution of the early solar system. It will take seven years for the spacecraft to reach Saturn. JPL is managing the Cassini project for NASA

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22/07/1997
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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