ESA's advanced communication satellite, Artemis, is ready to be shipped to Kourou for its launch on the Ariane 5 launcher in the summer of 2001. Artemis is not the conventional type of communtication satellite. In particular it differs in one very important aspect; none of its payloads connects a fixed point on the Earth with other fixed points on the Earth. Instead, Artemis will connect users on the ground with satellites in orbit via its radio frequency data relay payload. This dramatically increases communication time with spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.
This video contains rushes of Artemis, ready to be crated up for shipping, filmed in a cleanroom ESA's space research technology centre, ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands on 21 February 2001.

00:00:17:09 Reportage shots of Artemis in cleanroom
00:09:46:04 Beauty shots of Artemis in darkened cleanroom with artistic lighting