Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat

Status

Success

COROT

Launch Time
Wed Dec 27, 2006 14:23 UTC

Flight ST-17.

Rocket

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat

Image Credit: Roscosmos

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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

Details

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

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Location

Site 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

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Stats

2006

66th orbital launch attempt

Soyuz 2.1b

1st mission

1st mission of 2006

1st successful mission