Rosetta above Large Space Simulator

Rosetta’s Structural and Thermal Model – an initial replica of the final flight model, built for early testing – being lowered into the Large Space Simulator (LSS) at ESA’s ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwik, the Netherlands, in April 2000. The LSS is Europe’s single largest vacuum chamber, 15 m in height and 10 m in diameter, used to test full-size spacecraft in representative space conditions.