The S5 Payload Processing Facility

The S5 Payload Processing Facility of the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's space port. This ultramodern complex, inaugurated in 2001, was designed to enable pre-launch campaigns of four large communication satellites in parallel with 3,000 sq.meters of clean rooms. This facility is also able to handle processing of very large platforms such as ESA's Envisat polar platform or the 20-ton Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV) for resupply and reboost missions to the International Space Station.