Completed · Success
ESA's Herschel studied the cool Universe at infrared to submillimetre wavelengths from a halo orbit around Sun-Earth L2.
- Destinations
No celestial-body destination recorded; this extended-scope observatory studies a non-body scientific domain.
- Launch vehicle
- Ariane 5
- Launch site
- Kourou, French Guiana
- Countries
- International
- Mission types
- Observatory
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Herschel · Spacecraft
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Herschel: Estimated · May 14, 2009 to December 31, 2035
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 12, 2026
- Herschel overview - ESA — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- GCAT: General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (lunar and planetary catalog), J. McDowell — OTHEROther · Supports: mission claims
- Herschel Space Observatory: spacecraft and original source products — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- Herschel flight, helium exhaustion and disposal — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- ESA en route to the origins of the Universe - Herschel and Planck launch release — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context