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Loading onto Erector-Transporter Wagon


Date: 03 November 2005
Satellite: Venus Express
Location: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Copyright: ESA/Starsem

The fully integrated Soyuz FG-Fregat vehicle carrying Venus Express, ESA's first probe to Venus, is loaded onto its erector-transporter wagon in the MIK assembly and integration building, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The vehicle, already fitted with its payload, will then be transferred to the launch complex.
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