Planetary Science
PLANCK
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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist. He was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta".
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 14, 2009 at 01:12 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Herschel & Planck
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 1,921 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-026B
- NORAD catalog №
- 34938
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational
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