Interactive three-dimensional model of COROT. Mission information is also available as text below.
Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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Exoplanet search. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 2006-063; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
The launch
- Launch
- 27 December 2006, 14:23:38 UTC
- Launch location
- GIK-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz-2-1B
- Orbit
- Low Earth orbit (polar)
Launch intelligence
A Roscosmos Soyuz-2 rocket launched the COROT mission on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 at 2:23 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Roscosmos
- Vehicle
- Soyuz-2
- COSPAR launch ID
- 2006-063
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Dec 27, 2006, 14:23 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Dec 27 2006
- Pad and location
- LC-31, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Mission timeline
Follow the mission through its available trajectory data in the full 3D solar-system map.
Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 2 November 2012
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Spacecraft
COROT
Exoplanet search.
- GCAT ID
- S29678
- Manufacturer
- Alcatel Alenia Space (F)
- Launch mass
- 605 kg
- Dimensions
- 9 m long · 2 m diameter · 9 m span
Gallery
0 images from COROT.
No mission imagery is available yet.
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab — CoRoT Space Telescope
- Author
- uperesito
- Usage
- CC BY 4.0
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