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Meeting with a Majestic Giant: The Cassini Mission to Saturn
In October of 1997, a two-story-tall robotic spacecraft will begin a journey of many years to the vast and exiting realm of Saturn. With a mass of roughly 2,500 kilograms (5,510 pounds) of dry hardware and 3,000 kilograms (6,615 pounds) of propellant, it needs a boost from the Titan IV/Centaur launch vehicle and several planetary gravity assists. Both are needed if Cassini is to reach Saturn with sufficient propellant to brake into Saturn orbit and accomplish its mission: to deliver a European-built probe to the large, hazy moon Titan, and then tour the saturnian system for nearly four years. The Cassini mission has been undertaken by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). It is named in honor of the French-Italian astronomer Jean Dominique Cassini, who discovered the prominent gap in Saturn's main rings (now called the Cassini division), as well as the icy moons Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys and Dione...
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