Astrophysics

CoRoT

Completed

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Launched: 27 Dec 200614:23:38 UTC
Last contact: 17 Jun 201410:27:00 UTC
End declared: 24 Jun 2013
Duration: 7 years 5 months
Destinations: Low Earth orbit

A French-led mission that was the first built to find planets by the dimming of their stars, and that also studied the vibrations of stars to probe their interiors.

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Spacecraft

CoRoT

Telescope

Completed

Satellite with a 27 cm telescope that stared at one field of stars for up to five months at a time.

Launch mass: 605 kg
Size: 9 m × 2 m, span 9 m
Power: Solar
Built by: Alcatel Alenia Space
Last contact: 17 Jun 2014, 10:27:00 UTC
End declared: 24 Jun 2013
Designator: 2006-063A

Mission details from nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.