An engineer of the German company Daimler Benz Aerospace AG prepares the new Hygens satellite in Munich March 26. Hygens will shipped to the Kennedy Space Center in the United States where it will undergo special tests and then be mated with the cassini Saturn orbiter for launch in October 1997. The space probe built by the European Space Agency (ESA) will be the first European spacecraft to land on another planet.

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