Yesterday, the Copernicus EU Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite was carefully lifted out of its container, turned to stand vertically and moved to a new cleanroom in Plesetsk Cosmodrome, where it will remain until it is ready to join the upper stage of the Rockot launcher for liftoff, which is scheduled for 13 October.
Tweet Yesterday, we opened Sentinel-5P’s transport contain to reveal our baby after its journey to Plesetsk. Once the satellite had been carefully lifted out of the container it was turned to stand vertically and then moved from cleanroom 101B to cleanroom 101A where it will remain until it is ready…
