The visitor gallery

As we already mentioned in this blog, the visitor gallery is a special place from where the activities performed on the spacecraft can be observed without entering the clean room. The gallery is accessible via a long corridor. On their way,  visitors attention will be attracted  by something very special. Walls are not decorated with mirrors, like in the Gallerie de Glaces (hall of mirrors),  but with posters of all the missions that where prepared and carried out at EPCU (Ensemble de Préparation Charge Utile)  facility.

The first poster in the raw, commemorates the ESA  ENVISAT mission launched from CSG on March 1st 2002.
When one walks slightly further, two posters remembering MSG-1 and MSG-2 launch campaigns (respectively launched on  28/08/02 and  21/12/05) can be observed:

 

Then, the entrance of the visitor gallery is on the right hand side just after the fire extinguisher.

If you have entered the visitor gallery room today, you would have seen  Jean-Claude (second from the left) giving a lecture on MSG-3 to the CSG new comers.The window enables to visualize the spacecraft and on-going activities in parallel to the explanations.

For the readers of this blog only :-), despite the red logo above, that is what the young audience could see from this window today:

... the continuation of the  Solar Array panels inspection while, in parallel, some electrical tests on the platform and on the payload were taking place.