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Planck Qualification Model showing the payload module with its three circular radiators, the light baffle and the focal plane assembly in the centre. The image was taken during a test campaign in the thermal vacuum chamber at the Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL), Belgium.

Credit: ESA.
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