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The fully integrated Soyuz FG-Fregat- Venus Express probe

author: ESA/Starsem/S. Corvaja/Novapix

reference: e-lru10-00010

Image Size 300 DPI: 30 * 20 cm

The fully integrated Soyuz FG-Fregat vehicle carrying ESA's Venus Express probe, on its erector-transporter wagon in the MIK-40 assembly and integration building, in Baikonour, Kazakhstan. The vehicle, already fitted with its payload, will then be transferred to launch complex no.31 for four days of pre-launch check out and countdown rehearsals before the flight. The lift-off occurred at 04:33 CET (03:33 UT) on November 9, 2005, and Venus Express was successfully launched on a solar orbit toward Venus.

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2005 - BAIKONUR - KAZAKHSTAN - LAUNCHER - PREPARATION - ROCKET - SOYUZ - SOYUZ-FREGAT - SPACE CENTER - VENUS EXPRESS -