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    Loading onto Erector-Transporter Wagon

    Date: 04 Nov 2005
    Satellite: Venus Express
    Location: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
    Copyright: ESA/Starsem

    The fully integrated Soyuz FG-Fregat vehicle carrying Venus Express, ESA's first probe to Venus, is loaded onto its erector-transporter wagon in the MIK assembly and integration building, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The vehicle, already fitted with its payload, will then be transferred to the launch complex.


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