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The erectors pulls back from the Soyuz FG-Fregat vehicle carrying Mars Express, ESA's first probe to the Red Planet, shortly after its installation on launch complex no.31, in Baikonour, Kazakhstan. The Mars Express probe, consisting in a 1,223-kg orbiter carrying the 71-kg Beagle 2 lander, is housed with its Fregat upper stage in the 3.715-m diameter white payload fairing. The Euro-Russian Starsem joint-venture provided the launch