Cassini Orbiter Huygens Probe. A seven-year journey the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbited and its attached Huygens probe. Launch occurred at 4:43 a.m. EDT, October 15, 1997 from Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Station. After a 2.2-billion mile journey that will include two swing-bys of Venus and one of Earth gain additional velocity, the two-storey tall spacecraft will arrive at Saturn in July 2004 (NASA Media Archives). Buy this as a superb wall poster, a canvas print or a framed print.