Covering the FREND instrument with thermal blanket
Alexey Malakhov (IKI), FREND instrument manager, covers the FREND flight spare model (FM 2) with thermal blanket after it replaced the flight model (FM 1) on the ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter. The photograph was taken during launch preparations at the Baikonur cosmodrome.
IKI is the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Last Update: 1 September 2019