Photo credit: Sergio Maraschin, Space Systems/Loral

Technicians make final adjustments to thermal blankets around one
of the feed horns and tower structure.

A senior technician checks the interior of the EchoStar central
cylinder before integration.

Space Sytems/Loral technicans watch as EchoStar IX is tilted
down in preparation for moving the spacecraft to its shipping
container at the SS/L spacecraft assembly facility in
Palo Alto, California.

Space System/Loral technicians remove test harnesses and
prepare for the removal of the first of two Lithium-Ion batteries,
as iPSTAR completes its power systems thermal testing.

DIRECTV 8 completes its final orbital station configuration during
testing at Space System/Loral's Compact Antenna Test Range facility.

MTSAT-1R completes its final orbital station configuration during
testing at Space System/Loral's Compact Antenna Test Range facility.

Space System/Loral technicians realign a thermal blanket on the
tower of the MBSat spacecraft, which is mated to the shipping
container superstructure at the spacecraft assembly facility.