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<\/a>Soyuz Gaia VS06<\/p><\/div> Gaia lifting<\/p><\/div> Soyuz launcher and Gaia are already at the launch pad! The Soyuz launcher that will propel Gaia into space was moved to its launch pad at the spaceport in Kourou. The sixth Soyuz to be launched from this space center in South America was leaving the processing building (called MIK) on a special transport […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3823,"href":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSee the complete series of photos at http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/13318050@N05\/sets\/72157638667776286\/<\/a>
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\nGaia was transported to the launch pad, too. As part of the upper composite, which also is comprided of the fueled Fregat upperstage and the fairing, Gaia was moved by a special transporter from the S3 building to the launch pad in 23 km distance. A crane of the mobile gantry was used to lift the upper composite to the top level in 36m altitude for the connection with the Soyuz launcher inside the gantry. It was bolted with more than 100 bolts to the third of the Soyuz VS06. Gaia has reached its final destination \u2013 before leaving Earth!
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\nSee the complete series of photos at http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/13318050@N05\/sets\/72157638699486476\/<\/a>
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\nYou can also read much more info at http:\/\/reves-d-espace.com\/ <\/a>
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