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Mated to LVA


Flight mechanics from JPL lower the Cassini spacecraft onto its launch vehicle adapter in KSC's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The adapter is later mated to a Titan IV/Centaur expendable launch vehicle that lifts Cassini into space.

Cassini is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Cassini mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C.

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