COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Kennedy Center Media Archive Collection
Record
Description:
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
Release Date:
09/21/1997
Photo Credit:
NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Release:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration John F. Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
facet_what:
Cassini
facet_where:
Florida
facet_when:
09-21-1997
facet_when_year:
1997
Photo Number:
PL97C-11415.10
UID:
SPD-KSCMA-PL97C-11415.10
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