Upper composite being placed on Soyuz

The ‘upper composite’, containing the ninth and tenth Galileo satellites attached to their dispenser atop the Fregat upper stage inside the launcher fairing, are moved from the S3B building to the Soyuz launch site of Europe’s Spaceport.

The satellites are scheduled to lift off at 02:08 GMT on 11 September (04:08 CEST; 23:08 local time, 10 September) from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on top of a Soyuz rocket. They are expected to become operational, after initial in-orbit testing, later in the autumn.