Launched the French-led CoRoT space telescope from Baikonur on the maiden flight of the Soyuz 2.1b, placing it in polar orbit to search for exoplanet transits and study stellar interiors via asteroseismology.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 605 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 26 Soyuz 2.1b Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 2006, 14:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2006-063
- Launches in 2006
- 66th of 66
See it in orbit
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Object pages on Space Atlas: COROT
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