Sun
Sunstorm
Sunstorm is catalogued by GCAT as a astronomy mission in the Reaktor program.
Completed or retired · Historical mission record
View in 3D map ↗The mission
Sunstorm is catalogued by GCAT as a astronomy mission in the Reaktor program. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 2021-073; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
The launch
- Launch
- 17 August 2021, 01:47:06 UTC
- Launch location
- Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou, Guyane Francaise
- Launch vehicle
- Vega
- Orbit
- Lower low Earth orbit (Sun-synchronous)
Launch intelligence
An Arianespace Vega rocket launched the Pléiades-Neo 4 mission on Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at 1:47 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Arianespace
- Vehicle
- Vega
- COSPAR launch ID
- 2021-073
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Aug 17, 2021, 01:47 UTC
- Target T-0
- Not published
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Aug 17 2021
- Pad and location
- ELV, Guiana Space Centre
Humid and Mostly Cloudy Temp: 77.24F Wind: 5.62mph
- Temperature
- 77.24°F
- Wind
- 5.62 mph
- Condition
- Humid and Mostly Cloudy
- Forecast updated
- Aug 17, 2021, 00:00 UTC
Launch media
Mission timeline
Follow the mission through its available trajectory data in the full 3D solar-system map.
Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · August 2024?
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Spacecraft
Sunstorm
GCAT program: Reaktor.
- GCAT ID
- S49068
- Manufacturer
- Reaktor Space Lab Ltd
- Launch mass
- 2 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.2 m long · 0.1 m diameter · 0.2 m span
Gallery
One image from Sunstorm.
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