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.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
