A 700-tonne crane, a huge vacuum chamber (100 tons) sliced into three sections. A few centimeters of clearance through the roof. On 25 August, the CSL (Centre Spatial de Liège) pulled off one of its most delicate lifts ever: installing FOCAL7, soon one of Europe's largest vacuum chambers. 🛰 FOCAL 7 will serve both Earth-observation missions and purely scientific missions, across a wide range of wavelengths. 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfL3FRinEZ8 👉️ https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_20716473/en/extraordinary-operation-transfer-of-the-focal-7-vacuum-chamber-to-the-new-cleanroom-at-the-csl #space #science #belgium