COROT

2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent

COROT

Early space exoplanet and asteroseismology mission.

Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog

Launch
year known only: 2006
Lead / partner
France / ESA partners
Target
Earth orbit
Category
Exoplanet / stellar science
Status
Success
Vehicle
unknown
Mass
unknown
Orbit / trajectory
unknown

Why it happened

COROT flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of France / ESA partners's work toward earth orbit. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.

The mission

The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Early space exoplanet and asteroseismology mission.

Results

Early space exoplanet and asteroseismology mission.

Related missions

COROT CALIPSO — same_target CALIPSO Hinode — same_target Hinode THEMIS — same_target THEMIS Swift — same_target Swift

CALIPSO

Success

United States / France · 2006

Hinode

Success

Japan / United States / United Kingdom / ESA · 2005

THEMIS

Success

United States · 2007

Swift

Success

United States / United Kingdom / Italy · 2004

Sources & image credits

  • Blue straggler, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · license: cc-by-sa-3.0 (source, checked 2026-08-24)
  • Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
  • Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog