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Date: 19 November 2006 Satellite: Planck Depicts: Integration of the two Planck instruments Location: Alcatel Alenia Space, Cannes, France Copyright: AAS Show in archive: true
Top view of the focal plane assemblies of the two Planck instruments HFI and LFI during integration, with the focal plane box facing down.
The related image on the right-hand side shows an artist's impression of the front of the focal plane with the instruments' feedhorns also in place. The focal plane box (light coloured box in the above picture) is made transparant in the artist's impression.