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| | | | | | | Venus Express launch campaign starts
3 August 2005
| ESA's Venus Express, being packed ready to leave INTESPACE, Toulouse, for its launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. It is shown with high-gain antenna wrapped and solar arrays folded.
Credits: ESA-S. CORVAJA | |  |  | |
| | | | | Venus Express was shipped from Alenia Spazio in Turin, Italy, to INTESPACE, Toulouse, for the final testing phase in October 2004. The tests were concluded in July 2005.
Credits: ESA/EADS Astrium | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | Venus Express undergoing thermal vacuum testing with simulated Sun exposure, by INTESPACE, Toulouse.
Credits: ESA/EADS Astrium | | | | |
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