Ariane 5 G+ launched ESA's Rosetta spacecraft from Kourou on its decade-long journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which it would orbit starting in 2014 before deploying the Philae lander, the first-ever soft landing on a comet.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Ariane 5 G+ flights
- Date and time
- 2 March 2004, 07:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 G+
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 2004-006
- Launches in 2004
- 6th of 54
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