• → European Space Agency

    • About Science & Technology

    • For Public

    • For Educators

    • ESA

    • Science & Technology

    • INTEGRAL

    • Missions
    • Show All Missions
    • Mission Home
    • Summary
    • Fact Sheet
    • Objectives
    • Mission Team
    • Orbit View
    • Spacecraft
    • Spacecraft
    • 3D Model
    • Instruments
    • Mission Operations
    • Mission Operations
    • Launch Vehicle
    • Launch Campaign
    • Orbit/Navigation
    • Science Operations
    • ISDC
    • ISOC
    • Data Archive (ESA)
    • Data Archive (ISDC)
    • Resources
    • News Archive
    • Multimedia Gallery
    • Publication Archive
    • Calendar of Events
    • Services
    • Contact Us
    • Subscribe
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Bookmark and Share

    Loading the Space Head Unit onto the Railcar

    Date: 08 Oct 2002
    Satellite: INTEGRAL
    Location: Spacecraft Integration Building, Baikonur, Kazakhstan
    Copyright: ESA-S. Corvaja

    The Space Head Unit, with the INTEGRAL satellite inside it, is lifted by two cranes and loaded on a flat railroad transporter, for transport to the Launcher Integration Building where it will be attached to the Proton launcher's first three stages.


    Last Update: 08 Aug 2006

    • Shortcut URL
    • http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=30724
    • Latest selection
    • High-mass X-ray binary systems in the Milky Way
    • Distribution of high-mass X-ray binary stars and star-forming complexes
    • Artist's impression of a highly obscured HMXB
    • Image Hi-Res Versions
    • Hi-Res [jpg]
      803.99 kb.
    • Hi-Res [jpg]
      201.40 kb.
    • See also
    • Launch Campaign

    Connect with us

    • RSS
    • Youtube
    • Twitter
    • Flickr
    • Google Buzz
    • Livestream
    • Subscribe
    • App Store
    • ESA Science Twitter

    Follow ESA science

    • Copyright 2000 - 2013 © European Space Agency. All rights reserved.

    • Terms and Conditions