PLANCK Mission Gallery
		Planck satellite under the protection during the transfer (© ESA/CNES/Arianespace) Planck and Herschel in the clean room at CSG (© ESA/CNES/Arianespace) Planck and Herschel in the clean room at CSG (© ESA/CNES/Arianespace)   3D construction of PLANCK satellite © ESA/AOES Medialab (format avi or flash) PLANCK: how to detect photons © CNES (format quicktime ~63 Mb or avi ~455 Mb)   Planck in acoustic tests (© ESA - Thalès Alenia Space) Planck in EMC tests (© ESA - Thalès Alenia Space) Planck before vibrations (© ESA - Thalès Alenia Space) Planck VGrooves thermal shield (© ESA - Thalès Alenia Space) 4K pannel REU HFI (© ESA - Thalès Alenia Space) HFI preparation of the helium filling bench (© ESA - Thalès Alenia Space) Planck - Instruments folcal plane FPU (© ESA - Thalès Alenia Space) Planck telescope mirrors at LSS Estec (© ESA - Thalès Alenia Space) Planck - transport by an Antonov at Amsterdam's airport (© ESA - Thalès Alenia Space) Planck in the integration room: on first plane the telescope's mirrors, on the background the satellites's service module with the two instruments focal plane above it (© ESA) Planck from bottom to top: platform - 20K panel - V grooves (© Alcatel)   HFI instrument Flight Model at IAS Focal plane of HFI (FPU/HFI) in calibration configuration at IAS/Orsay (© CNES-CNRS) FPU just before integration with the optical setup (© CNES-CNRS) FPU fluidic connections (© CNES-CNRS) Calibration means interior view of the FPU/HFI at IAS/Orsay (temperature in the tank: 4 K) (© CNES-CNRS)   Planck satellite seen from the Earth - Credit: Alain Klotz, CESR - Pictures taken by an automated telescope in Australia.   Planck during its cruise toward L2 Lagrange point ( 1.8 Mb - © ESA)

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