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 isno the conventional type of communication 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 raio frequency data relay payload. THis dramatically increases communication time with spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.
This video contains rushes of Artemis as it is being lifted into its shipment crate, filmed in a cleanroom at ESA's space research and technology centre, ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands on 22 February 2001.

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