
Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Solar UV studies. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 2010-028; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 15 June 2010, 14:42:21 UTC
- Launch location
- Yasniy site, Dombarovskiy Air Base, Orensburgskaya Oblast', Rossiya
- Launch vehicle
- Dnepr
- Orbit
- Low Earth orbit (Sun-synchronous)
Flight data
Launch intelligence
An Ukraine Dnepr rocket launched the Picard mission on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 2:42 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Ukraine
- Vehicle
- Dnepr
- COSPAR launch ID
- 2010-028
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Jun 15, 2010, 14:42 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Jun 15 2010
- Pad and location
- LC-370/13, Dombarovsky Air Base
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 2013
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Picard
Solar UV studies.
- GCAT ID
- S36598
- Manufacturer
- Astrium (F) Toulouse
- Launch mass
- 150 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.9 m long · 1.5 m diameter · 2.7 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
One image from Picard.
Verification

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