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Date: 19 September 2007 Satellite: Herschel Depicts: SPIRE FPU Location: Cleanroom, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK Copyright: SPIRE Consortium Show in archive: true
The SPIRE focal plane unit before final delivery to ESA. The instrument is approximately 700 x 400 x 400 mm in size.