Safe arrival at the launch facility for MetOp


MetOp upper-composite being lifted onto the train
 
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.



Release date: 12 October 2006