GIOVE-B on the launch pad

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The Soyuz-Fregat launch vehicle carrying GIOVE-B the second of ESAs two Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element demonstrators for the Galileo global navigation satellite system is erected on the pad of the launch complex at the Baikonour spaceport Kazakh ...
The Soyuz-Fregat launch vehicle carrying GIOVE-B, the second of ESA's two Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element demonstrators for the Galileo global navigation satellite system, is erected on the pad of the launch complex at the Baikonour spaceport, Kazakhstan, on April 22, 2008. Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja 2008

The launcher that will carry GIOVE-B into orbit has been moved from the final assembly building to the launch pad in preparation for liftoff on Sunday morning.


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