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Table 1.
Important milestones in the Planck mission.
| Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
| Nov. 1992....... | ESA call for M3 (of Horizon 2000 programme) |
| May 1993....... | Proposals for COBRAS and SAMBA submitted |
| Sep. 1993....... | Selection of COBRAS and SAMBA for assessment |
| Dec. 1994....... | Selection of COBRAS and SAMBA for Phase A |
| Jul. 1996....... | (Combined) Project selection as M3 |
| May 1998....... | Pre-selection of the instrument consortia |
| Feb. 1999....... | Final approval of scientific payload and consortia |
| Jan. 2001....... | First meeting of the full Planck Collaboration |
| Apr. 2001....... | Prime contractor selected. Start of phase B |
| Jun. 2001....... | WMAP blazes the way for Planck |
| Sep. 2001....... | System requirements review |
| Jul.–Oct. 2002....... | Preliminary design review |
| Dec. 2002....... | Science ground segment (SGS) review |
| Apr.–Oct. 2004....... | Critical design review |
| Jan. 2005....... | Delivery of HFI cryo-qualification model to ESA |
| Aug. 2006....... | Calibration of flight instruments at Orsay and Laben |
| Sep. 2006....... | Delivery of instrument flight models to ESA |
| Nov. 2006....... | HFI and LFI mating at Thales in Cannes |
| Jan. 2007....... | Integration completed |
| Mar. 2007....... | SGS implementation review |
| Feb.–Apr. 2007....... | Qualification review |
| Jun.–Aug. 2007....... | Final global test at Centre Spatial de Liège |
| Nov. 2008....... | Ground segment readiness review |
| Jan. 2009....... | Flight acceptance review passed |
| 19 Feb. 2009....... | Planck flies to French Guyana |
| 14 May 2009....... | Launch |
| 02 Jul. 2009....... | Injection into L2 orbit |
| 20 May 2009....... | Commissioning begins |
| 13 Aug. 2009....... | Commissioning ends |
| 27 Aug. 2009....... | End of “First light survey” |
| 14 Feb. 2010....... | Start of second all-sky survey |
| 05 Jul. 2010....... | First all-sky image released |
| 14 Aug. 2010....... | Start of third all-sky survey |
| 27 Nov. 2010....... | End of nominal mission, start of extended mission |
| 14 Feb. 2011....... | Start of fourth all-sky survey |
| 29 Jul. 2011....... | Start of fifth all-sky survey |
| 14 Jan. 2012....... | End of cryogenic mission, start of warm phase |
| 30 Jan. 2012....... | LFI starts sixth all-sky survey |
| 08 Feb. 2012....... | Planck completes 1000 days in space |
| 14 Aug. 2013....... | Departure manoeuvre executed |
| 04 Oct. 2013....... | Start of end-of-life operations |
| 09 Oct. 2013....... | De-orbiting from L2 |
| 09 Oct. 2013....... | HFI, LFI, and SCS commanded off |
| 23 Oct. 2013....... | Last command |
| Feb. 1996....... | Publication of the “Redbook” of Planck science |
| Jan. 2005....... | Bluebook: The Scientific Programme of Planck |
| Sep. 2009....... | First light survey press release |
| Mar. 2010....... | First (of 15) internal data releases |
| Sep. 2010....... | Pre-launch papers, special issue of A&A, Vol. 520 |
| Jan. 2011....... | Early release (compact source catalogue) |
| Dec. 2011....... | Early results papers, special issue of A&A, Vol. 536 |
| Mar. 2013....... | Nominal mission data release (temperature, PR1) |
| Nov. 2014....... | 2013 results papers, special issue of A&A, Vol. 571 |
| Feb.–Aug. 2015....... | Extended mission data release (PR2) |
| Sep. 2016....... | 2015 results papers, special issue of A&A, Vol. 594 |
| 2018....... | This Legacy data release (PR3) |
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