2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent
Planck
Precision cosmic microwave background mission.
Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- year known only: 2009
- Lead / partner
- ESA
- Target
- Sun–Earth L2
- Category
- Cosmology
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- Sun-Earth L2 orbit ()
- Duration
- Planned: >15 months Final:
Why it happened
Planck flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of ESA's work toward sun–earth l2. 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: Precision cosmic microwave background mission.
Results
Precision cosmic microwave background mission.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net) ., via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · license: cc-by-sa-4.0 (source, checked 2026-08-24)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
