Over the weekend, Thales Alenia Space continued busily testing the Sentinel-1A satellite to ensure that everything is working okay after its long journey to the launch site.
A highlight over the weekend for the ESA team was an invite to visit the MIK, which is a building where the Soyuz rocket is assembled, and to see the launch pad.
The team received some background information about the process involved in assembling the launcher and we got a close up of the rocket in its current state of integration.
Post from Svein Lokas (ESA’s Sentinel-1A Launch Campaign Manager), French Guiana, 2 March 2014.
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