Success for Picard and Prisma

Picard, the Sun observation satellite, belonging to the CNES, the French Space Agency, was successfully launched by the Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr rocket (a former reconverted missile) from the cosmodrome near Yasny, in the south of Russia, today at 14:42 UT (Universal Time). The Mango and Tango satellites from the Swedish mission, Prisma, in which the CNES is taking part, were also placed in orbit as planned.

Picard and Prisma on the CNES website

Published on 15 June 2010

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