Hipparcos
Hipparcos was ESA completed space astrometry mission to map stellar positions, distances, motions, and brightness. Its recovery from a failed apogee boost motor enabled more than three years of high-quality observations.
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- Aliases
- Hipparcos astrometry missionHipparcos and Tycho mission
- Name
- Hipparcos
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- Hipparcos was ESA completed space astrometry mission to map stellar positions, distances, motions, and brightness. Its recovery from a failed apogee boost motor enabled more than three years of high-quality observations.
- Destination
- Highly eccentric Earth orbit at approximately 500 km perigee and 36,000 km apogee after apogee-boost motor failure
- End Date
- 1993-08-15
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- Hipparcos produced the Hipparcos Catalogue of 118,218 stars and the Tycho Catalogue of more than one million stars before communications were terminated in August 1993.
- Programs
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- Start Date
- 1989-08-08
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- Creation Time
- August 1, 2026 at 08:48:07 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 21, 2026 at 01:39:21 UTC
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