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Safe arrival at the launch facility for MetOp

11 October 2006

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MetOp upper-composite being lifted onto the train

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The MetOp upper-composite being lifted onto the train for its overnight journey to the Soyuz launch facility MIK 40.

MetOp-A was launched on 19 October 2006 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on a Soyuz ST rocket with a Fregat upper stage.

Credits: ESA - Kurt Büchler

Launch diary

MetOp launch status Europe's first polar-orbiting weather satellite ready for launch Integration of MetOp upper-composite and third-stage complete MetOp encapsulated in fairing MetOp integrated with Fregat upper-stage MetOp launch campaign resumed MetOp to be launched in October Launch of MetOp-A postponed MetOp ready for launch Upper-composite transferred to launcher integration facility Last-ever look at MetOp MetOp joins Fregat upper-stage MetOp fuelled and pressurised MetOp-A gets green light for 17 July launch date MetOp – last phase of testing before launch MetOp satellite shipped to Baikonur on 18 April

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