How many years has the Cassini spacecraft been in orbit around Saturn?

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Cassini is a NASA space probe whose purpose is to study the planet Saturn, its satellites and rings. Launched into space on October 15, 1997 from Cape Canaveral by a Titan IV-Centaur rocket, it began its mission in the Saturnian system on July 1, 2004 and completed it on September 15, 2017 by diving into Saturn's atmosphere.

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