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- Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana
- Launch date: May 14, 2009ESA Science & Technology: Herschel
- Rocket: Ariane-5ESA Science & Technology: Herschel
- The rocket was carrying both the Herschel space telescope and the Planck spacecraft
- Total weight of the cargo: 5.3 tonsESA Science & Technology: Herschel
- Purpose of the mission is to observe the stars and galaxiesESA Science & Technology: Herschel
- European Space Agency is sponsoring the mission
- Rocket manufacturer: ArianespaceESA Science & Technology: Herschel
- The rocket is going to travel a distance of nearly 1 million miles from earth
- The mission is suppose to last around three years
- Telescope mirror: 3.5 meters in diameterESA Science & Technology: Herschel
- Hubble's mirror: 2.4 meters in diameter
- Focus of the telescope is to observe chucks ice and dustESA Science & Technology: Herschel
- The total cost of the rocket and cargo: $952 millionGuardian.co.uk: Europe launches Herschel and Planck space telescopes (May 14, 2009)
- Named after Sir William Herschel who discovered the infrared region
- Originally named "FIRST," for "Far InfraRed and Submillimetre Telescope
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The Herschel telescope was launched into space on May 14, 2009, in hopes that it will reveal clues about the creation of the universe. Herschel is the largest telescope to be put into orbit.Guardian.co.uk: Europe launches Herschel and Planck space telescopes (May 14, 2009)
The purpose of the telescope is to gather information on the origins of the universe via the formation of the stars and galaxies. Launched on the Ariane-5 rocket, the mission also hopes to observe some left-over radiation from the Big Bang with the Planck spacecraft, which is also on board.ESA Science & Technology: Herschel
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