Cassini's upper equipment module is prepared for mating to the propulsion module in the PHSF

[KSC-97PC-1017]


  • Photo Number: KSC-97PC-1017

  • Release Date: 02-Jul-1997

  • Description: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) technicians in a blue crane at the top of the white upper equipment module (UEM) level the UEM prior to separation from its dolly. The module will be prepared for stacking atop Cassini's propulsion module in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC. Cassini, a four-year, close- up study of the Saturnian system, is scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral Air Station in October 1997. It 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. JPL is managing the Cassini project for NASA.

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