Titan IVB/Centaur launched NASA's Cassini orbiter and ESA's Huygens probe from Cape Canaveral on a nearly seven-year journey to Saturn, arriving in 2004 to begin an extended study of the planet, its rings, and its moon Titan.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 5.6 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 Titan IVB/Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 15 October 1997, 08:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IVB/Centaur
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1997-061
- Launches in 1997
- 63rd of 89
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas