Gaia spacecraft during vertical lift
Date: 04 April 2013
Satellite: Gaia
Location: Intespace, Toulouse, France
Copyright: ESA - S. Corvaja
The Gaia Flight Model spacecraft in its vertical lifting cradle at the facilities of Intespace in Toulouse, France, being lifted from the weighing scale onto the equipment used to measure the position of the spacecraft centre of gravity along the Y- and Z-axes (both horizontal in this configuration). The equipment interface is visible in the right foreground.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
