Detail View: NASA Kennedy Center Media Archive Collection: The Cassini spacecraft, protected by an environmentally controlled protective fairing, is sitting at Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, awaiting its launch scheduled for mid-October atop a Titan IV/Centaur launch vehicle. A fouryear, close-up study of the Saturnian system, the Cassini mission will take seven years for the spacecraft to reach Saturn. Scientific instruments carried aboard the spacecraft will study Saturn?s atmosphere, magnetic field, rings, and several moons. NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is managing the Cassini project
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Description:
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The Cassini spacecraft, protected by an environmentally controlled protective fairing, is sitting at Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, awaiting its launch scheduled for mid-October atop a Titan IV/Centaur launch vehicle. A fouryear, close-up study of the Saturnian system, the Cassini mission will take seven years for the spacecraft to reach Saturn. Scientific instruments carried aboard the spacecraft will study Saturn?s atmosphere, magnetic field, rings, and several moons. NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is managing the Cassini project
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Release Date:
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09/21/1997
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Photo Credit:
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NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Release:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration John F. Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
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facet_what:
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Cassini
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facet_where:
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Florida
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facet_when:
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09-21-1997
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facet_when_year:
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1997
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Photo Number:
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PL97C-11415.10
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UID:
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SPD-KSCMA-PL97C-11415.10
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original url:
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http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=822
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