Don Savage/Doug Isbell
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC              September 19, 1997
(Phone:  202/358-1547)

George Diller
Kennedy Space Center, FL
(Phone:  407/867-2468)

Mary Beth Murrill
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
(Phone:  818/354-5011)

RELEASE:  97-207

CASSINI LAUNCH RESCHEDULED FOR OCT. 13

     The launch of NASA's Cassini spacecraft aboard a U.S. Air 
Force Titan IVB rocket has officially been rescheduled on the 
Eastern Range for Monday, Oct. 13.  The payload is now back at 
Complex 40 atop the Titan IV Centaur.  The launch window for 
Cassini extends from 4:55 to 7:15 a.m. EDT.

     Cassini is a joint NASA-European Space Agency (ESA) mission 
to Saturn, which is scheduled to arrive at the ringed planet in 
2004 after more than six years of interplanetary travel.  After 
arrival, the spacecraft will orbit Saturn for four years studying 
the gas giant planet, its rings and moons, and the ESA-built 
Huygens probe will descend to the surface of the giant moon Titan.

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