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Removing the clamp bands


Date: 27 April 2012
Satellite: BepiColombo
Depicts: Removing the clamp bands
Location: Test Centre, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Copyright: ESA

Technical personnel from the spacecraft integration contractor (Thales Alenia Space) remove the STM clamp bands securing the Inter-Module Hardware (IMH) cone interfaces on the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) Structural and Thermal Model (STM) to the cup interfaces on the ground handling trolley.

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