Artist's impression of GIOVE-A, the first of ESA’s In-Orbit Verification spacecraft for the Galileo global navigation satellite system, as it deploys its second solar array shortly after launch by a Russian Soyuz/Fregat vehicle, in December 2005.
Soyuz on launch pad six, fueled and ready for lift off. Liquid oxygen is evaporating and being vented, causing the white clouds surrounding the base of the rocket.