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Placing Gaia on top of the Soyuz launcher (8 of 12)

Placing Gaia on top of the Soyuz launcher (8 of 12)


Date: 13 December 2013
Satellite: Gaia
Location: Soyuz launch pad, Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou, French Guiana
Copyright: ESA-CNES-Arianespace / Optique Vidéo du CSG - S. Martin

The Gaia spacecraft - mated with the Fregat stage and enclosed by the fairing - is manoeuvred to the top of the Soyuz launcher, using an overhead crane inside the mobile gantry on the launch pad. The Soyuz launcher is below the platform inside the 53-metre tall mobile gantry and only the dome shaped top of it is visible near the centre of this photo, in the background.

Last Update: 1 September 2019
29-Mar-2024 05:24 UT

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