Cassini backup spacecraft?

Was a backup built along with the primary Cassini orbiter?

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Bruce Palmer wrote:
Was a backup built along with the primary Cassini orbiter?

No, it's been quite some years since JPL & co. routinely built complete
backup spacecraft. I expect there were backups of major subassemblies,
against the possibility of last-minute hardware damage, but there wasn't a
spare spacecraft.
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Bruce Palmer wrote in news:sliFc.8884$aM4.2396679
@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net:

Was a backup built along with the primary Cassini orbiter?


Probably only an engineering model currently used for
testing flight software.

--Damon