The fully integrated Soyuz FG-Fregat vehicle carrying Venus Express, ESA's first probe to Venus, is loaded onto its erector-transporter wagon in the MIK assembly and integration building, in Baikonour, Kazakhstan. The vehicle, already fitted with its payload, will then be transferred to launch complex .
The Venus Express spacecraft launch is now scheduled for Wednesday, 9 November 2005, at 03:33 GMT