ESA's new Envisat satellite is an advanced polar-orbiting Earth observation satellite, which will be launched by Ariane 5 at the end of 2001. It carries a package of ten multi-disciplinary instruments to observe the Earth and its atmosphere form space in a synergistic fashion, offering unprecedented opportunities in environmental monitoring and operational Earth observation.
Envisat was built and tested at ESA's ESTEC site in The Netherlands. These rushes were filmed in the cleanroom of the test centre at ESTEC on 05 July 2000 and feature the integration of the solar panel brackets with the Envisat satellite. The rushes carry clean international sound only.

01:00:30 Brackets being readied for attacment
01:02:29 Envisat lying horizontal ready for bracket integration
01:02:53 Bracket receiving sites on Envisat
01:03:16 Engineers debrief before integration
01:04:22 Preparations to bracket receiving sockets on Envisat
01:05:54 Craning up brackets
01:13:50 Moving brackets towards satellite
01:18:50 Cleaning recieving sockets and brackets before integration
01:20:26 Bracket recieving sockets
01:21:31 Bracket Integration
01:25:20 WA Bracket Integration
01:25:54 CU Bracket integration
01:29:05 Discovery of incorrect attachment
01:29:49 Unscrewing brackets
01:30:52 Removal of brackets
01:32:38 Adjustment to recieving sockets
01:33:56 END