Pictures

(in roughly inverse chronological order)

For latest pictures, please see the Image and Video Archive.


• Some current pictures (01/2004)
  • The satellite
  • Satellite views with labels
  • the focal plane
  • The HFI
  • Detailed views of HFI focal plane
  • The LFI
  • The two instruments in the satellite
  • The telescope
  • Optical details
  • Orbit and Scanning Strategy
• The new Planck posters (02/2002)
  • Planck blue poster
  • Planck red poster
  • Herschel poster
• From the Alcatel proposal
  • Planck with a starry background
  • Planck with no background
  • Herschel
  • Herschel and Planck on the Ariane5
  • A close up view of Herschel and Planck in the fairing.
• The new Planck logos !
  • With more contrast
    • An icon-sized version with white background and with transparent background
    • With white background, normal-sized one and a larger-sized one.
    • With transparent background, normal-sized one and a larger-sized one.
    • A black-and-white version to use on letterheads etc.
  • With less contrast
    • In very large size, GIF, JPG, or TIF format
    • In smaller size, GIF JPG or TIF format
• A (60x80 cm) poster (in Postscript or PDF format) containing general information on Planck can be downloaded and printed.
• Pictures from the Planck launch animations (2000):
  • • Planck from the side
    • another Planck
    • Planck and FIRST
    • another Planck and FIRST
    • Planck and FIRST on the Ariane 5
    • another Planck and FIRST on the Ariane 5
    • FIRST alone.
  • several sequences of stills starting from the launch and into the orbit:
    • In the Ariane
    • solid booster separation
    • fairing separation
    • main stage separation
    • cruise configuration
    • Planck separes from FIRST
    • last stage separation
• The Virtual Reality animations of Planck (2000).
• Pictures from the Planck Payload Architect study (1999):
  • Views of Planck:
    • Planck picture with Alcatel logo
    • Planck picture without Alcatel logo
    • a small version of the above
  • Views of the mock-up built by Alcatel:
    • full view of the mock-up
    • another full view
    • a view without the radiation shield
    • another view without the shield showing nicely the cooler piping
    • a view from the back side of the telescope
    • a view from a high angle
    • the telescope by itself
    • a detail of the V-grooves and piping
    • a view of the MGSE putting the focal plane into place
• Colorized pictures from the FIRST/Planck Carrier (1997-98) studies:
  • Planck:
    • a 3D view of the Planck payload
    • an exploded view of the Planck payload
    • an exploded view of the Planck payload with labels
    • a cross-sectional cut of Planck with labels
    • a cross-sectional cut of Planck without labels
    • FPU and secondary mirror support structures
    • primary mirror support structures
    • telescope support structures
    • an exploded view of the Planck SVM
    • an exploded view of the Planck SVM with labels
  • Misc:
    • FIRST and Planck in the Ariane 5 ,
    • FIRST and Planck detached
• Pictures from the FIRST/Planck Merger/Carrier/Stand-alone (1997-98) studies:
  • Several pictures from the initial ESA study of the FIRST/Planck merger:
    • View from the Planck end
    • a side view
    • in the Ariane fairing
    • cutaway in the fairing
    • a cutaway view
    • a cutaway view with labels
  • The "merger" according to the industrial contractors:
    • the Aerospatiale concept,
    • the Matra Marconi Space concept
  • Views of the "Carrier" concept according to the internal ESA study:
    • an isometric view in color
    • idem with black background
    • separate FIRST and Planck
    • an isometric view
    • the payload module
    • view in the Ariane fairing
    • an exploded view of Planck with labels,
    • a cross section with angles
  • The Planck "stand-alone" concept as studied by industry:
    • the Aerospatiale concept
    • the Matra Marconi Space concept
• Pictures from the Phase A Study:
  • Several nice pictures of COBRAS/SAMBA:
    • "The definitive..."
    • a picture with labels
    • a cutaway view
    • with the Earth in the background
    • from the bottom
    • "sunrise"
    • "The famous one".
  • Another (simpler) view of COBRAS/SAMBA
  • an animation of the PLANCK spacecraft.
• Pictures from the Assessment Study:
  • The COBRAS/SAMBA spacecraft
  • The COBRAS/SAMBA spacecraft with stars in the background