Thursday 25th April

A sunny but windy day at VSFB.

The preparations on the satellite are going well, many activities were going on in parallel, and with the CPR reflector open the satellite looks really impressive.

The electrical team were performing H5 checks which are to ensure that when the satellite is mated on the launcher the team can communicate with it through various harnesses in the launch pad and launcher.

The propulsion team from Stevenage had arrived and were beginning preparations for the fueling, and finally gas sample measurements were taken through some of the launcher purge lines to ensure they were clean enough not to contaminate the instruments during the launch phase.