PICTURE CAPTIONS IMAGE 1 MOST Mission logo. Photo credit: Canadian Space Agency IMAGE 2 The MOST satellite with its telescope removed from the the instrument bay. Photo credit: Canadian Space Agency IMAGE 3 MOST Mission Scientist poses with the satellite in the clean room. Photo credit: Canadian Space Agency IMAGE 4 MOST enters the thermal vacuum chamber for testing at the David Florida Laboratories (DFL) outside Ottawa. Photo credit: Canadian Space Agency, Dynacon IMAGE 5 MOST Thermal/Mechanical Engineer Hugh Chesser, Dynacon Project Manager Simon Grocott, and MOST Radio Engineer Alex Beattie pose with MOST on the vibration table at DFL. This simulates the rigours that MOST would endure during launch atop the Russian rocket. Photo credit: Canadian Space Agency, Dynacon IMAGE 6 Map showing travel routes to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, 800 km north of Moscow. Photo credit: Eurockot Launch Services IMAGE 6a The Russian military Antonov-12 plane which was used to transport MOST and the Canadian team to Plesetsk. Photo credit: Jaymie Matthews IMAGE 7 The official logo of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome and the Russian Space Forces. Photo credit: Jaymie Matthews IMAGE 8 MOST in the clean room in Plesetsk, with the door open through which the telescope will view the Universe. Photo credit: Jaymie Matthews IMAGE 9 A star's eye view looking down the barrel of the MOST telescope. Photo credit: Jaymie Matthews IMAGE 10 Thermal/mechanical Engineer Hugh Chesser checks the separation system that will kick MOST from the third stage of the rocket into its independent orbit. Photo credit: Jaymie Matthews IMAGE 11 A Russian Space Forces technician checks the attachment of MOST to the third stage adapter that will be placed at the nose of the rocket. Photo credit: Jaymie Matthews IMAGE 12 The MOST Team poses with their satellite now that it is integrated onto its launch adapter. From right to left: Instrument Scientist Rainer Kuschnig, Thermal/mechanical Engineer Hugh Chesser, Mission Scientist Jaymie Matthews, Dynacon Project Manager Simon Grocott, Radio Engineer Alex Beattie, Canadian Space Agency Project Manager Glen Campbell, and Eurockot Launch Manager York Viertel. Photo credit: Eurockot Launch Services IMAGE 13 A Russian Space Forces engineer checks the thermal insulation blanket on the third stage, after MOST has been successfully mounted on the rocket's third stage. Photo credit: Jaymie Matthews IMAGE 14 A student enters the clean room through the air shower, designed to minimise dust contamination of the satellites and rocket. Photo credit: Danish DTUSat IMAGE 15 The third stage, protected by an insulating blanket, is rolled out on a specially fitted train for delivery to the launch pad. Photo credit: Jaymie Matthews IMAGE 16 See above caption. IMAGE 17 The first two stages of the Russian Rockot, formerly a Soviet nuclear ICBM, now converted to peaceful use. Photo credit: Jaymie Matthews IMAGE 18 MOST Mission Scientist Jaymie Matthews at the formerly top-secret Russian launch site. Photo credit: Jaymie Matthews IMAGE 19 MOST roars into orbit atop the Russian Rockot, leaping from its launch tube, at exactly 10:15:25.395 EDT, from a pad at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Photo credit: Eurockot Launch Services IMAGE 20 Artist's conception of the third stage entering orbit, carrying MOST, a Czech satellite called Mimosa, and six tiny nanosats from Canada, Japan, Denmark and the United States. MOST is at the upper left. Photo credit: Eurockot Launch Services IMAGE 21 Artist's conception of MOST released into space. Photo credit: Eurockot Launch Services IMAGE 22 Mission Control map of MOST orbit, showing the satellite as it passes over Canada. The locations of the three MOST ground stations (UBC, U of T and U. Vienna) are shown. The oval outline around MOST's position indicates where it would be in radio contact with the ground. Photo credit: UBC, U of T IMAGE 23 Same as above, but using a globe projection. Photo credit: UBC, U of T