Vega flight VV06

Vega flight VV06 is the Vega space launch of the LISA Pathfinder satellite.
Payload.
The flight was a single-payload mission that deployed the LISA Pathfinder scientific satellite into orbit. It had a total payload mass of about , including the satellite and its adapter, which is the Vega launcher's record ().
LISA Pathfinder.
The LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, a technology validation for the LISA mission, had a lift-off mass of approximately , and a design lifetime of 1 year. It was developed by Airbus Defence and Space for the European Space Agency's science directorate.
It is Airbus's spacecraft launched by Arianespace.
Mission description.
Launch date.
The successful Vega flight took place on at 04:04UTC ( at 01:04 local time) from the ELV launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana.
Timeline and trajectory.
The mission was planned to last 1 hour, 45 minutes and 33 seconds from lift-off until separation, placing its payload into a low Earth parking orbit with a perigee of about , an apogee of about , and an inclination of about 5.96°, from which the spacecraft autonomously reached its L1 Lissajous orbit.
Statistics.
The launch was the Arianespace mission (the in ). LISA Pathfinder was the spacecraft to be put in orbit by Arianespace.