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Planck is placed inside the transport container


Date: 15 February 2009
Satellite: Planck
Depicts: Spacecraft is rolled into its transport container
Location: Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL), Belgium
Copyright: ESA/Thales

Bolted to the transport base, the Planck spacecraft is placed inside its custom transport container. The next day the container was put on a low-bed truck for transport to the Liège airport from where it was flown to Kourou.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
16-Apr-2026 09:38 UT

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