Picture of the Month, November 2002

LIFT-OFF!  
As scheduled, INTEGRAL was launched by a PROTON launcher from Baikonur 
cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) on 17 October 2002, 04:41 UT. The PROTON
launcher showed a flawless performance. In the mean time the spacecraft 
subsystems have been activated and the spacecraft performs exceptionally well.
Instrument activation has started as scheduled.