Payload
COROT
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
COROT is a France payload satellite, launched on December 27, 2006 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 27, 2006 at 02:23 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- COROT
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 857 km
- Periapsis
- 591 km
- Inclination
- 90.1°
- Orbital period
- 99.28 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 605 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-063A
- NORAD catalog №
- 29678
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 2.678 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational