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The Koreasat 5 spacecraft makes a pre-dawn arrival in California from Cannes, France, where it was manufactured at the facilities of Alcatel Alenia Space. Here, a Russian Antonov 124 cargo plane, one of the largest cargo aircraft in the world, opens its cargo hatch. |
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The spacecraft team eases the large spacecraft container out of the cargo hold. |
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A crane moves the container to a flatbed truck for transport to Sea Launch Home Port. |
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The spacecraft arrives at the Payload Processing Facility and is transfered into a processing cell for testing, fueling and encapsulation in a payload fairing.
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