Sentinel-5P arrives in the 'MIK'

As the campaign to prepare Sentinel-5P for launch gets underway, the satellite was taken from Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK, where it was put together and tested, to London Stansted Airport to be loaded onto a huge Antonov plane for its flight to Moscow. This leg was followed by another flight to Arkhangelsk in northwest Russia and then a 250-km train journey to Plesetsk, arriving safe and sound on Friday 1 September. The satellite container was then moved it to the ‘MIK’ cleanroom.