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The last time a human eye would glimpse the Proba-V minisatellite, taken on 17 April as the launch fairing was closed in the S5A integration hall. The two 10-m tall fairing halves were carefully closed upon Proba-V on top of the Vespa adapter containing its fellow passengers, Vietnam’s VNREDSat-1 Earth observation satellite and the ESTCube-1 Estonian student nanosatellite.