NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

COROT

Launch Time
Wed Dec 27, 2006 14:23 UTC

Flight ST-17.

Rocket

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat
Image Credit: Roscosmos
Starsem
Status: Active
Price: $25.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 4,550 kN
Payload to LEO: 7,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 3,000 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 46.94 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.11 m
Fairing Height: 11.43 m

Mission Details

COROT

The COROT (Convection Rotation à Transits planétaires / Convection Rotation and planetary Transits) instrument, an afocal telescope equipped by four CCD detectors, was put on a Proteus platform and launched in late 2006 for an at least 2 and 1/2 years mission. This astrophysical space experiment will enable to study, in two application domains, phenomena and objects never observed to this day.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 605.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

Site 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

2006

66th orbital launch attempt

Soyuz 2.1b

1st mission
1st mission of 2006
1st successful mission