Vega launched ESA's LISA Pathfinder from Kourou toward the Sun-Earth L1 point, a technology demonstrator that tested precision drag-free control and laser interferometry for future gravitational-wave observatories.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- L1-point
- Sun-Earth L1
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 22 Vega flights
- Date and time
- 3 December 2015, 04:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Vega
- Builder
- Avio
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2015-070
- Launches in 2015
- 74th of 87
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