Liftoff!
![Color image of rocket launching.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/97pc1545.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
October 15, 1997
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A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe. Launch occurred at 4:43 a.m. EDT, Oct. 15, from Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Station.