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Date: 07 January 2009 Satellite: Herschel Depicts: Flight model spacecraft on overhead crane Location: Cleanroom at ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands Copyright: ESA Show in archive: true
On 8 January, after its removal from the LSS earlier that day, the Herschel flight model spacecraft is transferred across the cleanroom by an overhead crane to be placed on top of the flight adapter of the Ariane 5 launcher for a fit check.