Cassini's Journey

The Cassini spacecraft will spend over six and a half years traveling from Earth to Saturn. Cassini will follow a complex trajectory that uses four gravity assists -- two with Venus and one each with Earth and Jupiter -- to build up enough velocity to make it out to Saturn. To help you understand where Cassini is going and when, use the animated diagram below or our interactive diagram of Cassini's journey through the solar system.

Cassini image map

The Cassini spacecraft is represented in the above diagram by the red "C".
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