Vega flight VV06


Vega flight VV06 is the Vega space launch of the LISA Pathfinder satellite.

Payload

The flight was a single-payload mission that deployed the LISA Pathfinder scientific satellite into orbit. It had a total payload mass of about, including the satellite and its adapter, which is the Vega launcher's record.

LISA Pathfinder

The LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, a technology validation for the LISA mission, had a lift-off mass of approximately, and a design lifetime of 1 year. It was developed by Airbus Defence and Space for the European Space Agency's science directorate.
It is Airbus's spacecraft launched by Arianespace.

Mission description

Launch date

The successful Vega flight took place on at 04:04UTC from the ELV launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana.

Timeline and trajectory

The mission was planned to last 1 hour, 45 minutes and 33 seconds from lift-off until separation, placing its payload into a low Earth parking orbit with a perigee of about, an apogee of about, and an inclination of about 5.96°, from which the spacecraft autonomously reached its L1 Lissajous orbit.

Statistics

The launch was the Arianespace mission. LISA Pathfinder was the spacecraft to be put in orbit by Arianespace.