Tag: Vega
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Arianespace return to Vega launch preparations following two month pause
Arianespace has resumed the launch campaign for the Vega’s return to flight. After being on hold for two months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the VV16 mission can once again prepare for what is scheduled to be a mid-June launch date. The Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) program was started by the European Space Agency…
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Arianespace return to Vega launch preparations following two month pause
Arianespace has resumed the launch campaign for the Vega’s return to flight. After being on hold for two months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the VV16 mission can once again prepare for what is scheduled to be a mid-June launch date. The Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) program was started by the European Space Agency…
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Arianespace set the dates for its return to action
Arianespace has announced that the launch campaigns at the Guiana Space Center will resume soon. This comes after a month-long suspension of all launch campaigns that began on March 16th. Beginning May 11th, the launch campaigns for the VV16/SSMS and the VA253 will resume. The launch campaigns were halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic on…
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Arianespace begins stacking Vega ahead of March Return To Flight
Arianespace’s Vega rocket is on track to conduct its Return To Flight (RTF) mission in March after stacking operations began at the European Spaceport in French Guiana. Vega suffered the first failure of her career during the July 2019 launch of Falcon Eye-1. Vega’s return will involve the lofting of numerous satellites, with the manifest…
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One on one ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Wörner
Last Sunday (October 6th) the annual ESA-ESTEC open house day was held on the grounds of Europe’s largest Space facility, ESTEC in the Netherlands. This open day is part of world space week – and the week of science. This year’s theme of the open day was “Europe to the Moon”. Among the special guests…
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Inquiry finds Vega failed after violent event during early second stage flight
Arianespace has published the findings from an Independent Inquiry Commission tasked with analyzing the failure of Vega Flight VV15. Vega failed during the launch of the Falcon Eye-1 satellite in July. The overview concludes the second stage failed 14 seconds into its burn, via a sudden and violent event via a “thermo-structural failure in the…
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Vega suffers her first failure during Falcon Eye-1 launch
Arianespace’s Vega rocket failed during the launch of the Falcon Eye-1 spacecraft for the United Arab Emirates. The launch has been delayed by several days due to unacceptable upper-level winds. Tuesday’s attempt, however, launched without any weather concerns at the top of the window that opened at 01:53 (UTC) on Wednesday (10:53:03 local time on…
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ESA promotes Vega’s evolution for independent European access to space
Arianespace’s future ambitions in the launch services market will be focused on two new launch vehicles. The Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets will be tasked with covering a multitude of payload requirements and will evolve together via commonality of hardware. Vega-C is set to conduct her maiden flight in 2020 and is currently in the…
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Vega launches Italy’s PRISMA Earth Observation Satellite
Italy’s PRISMA Earth observation satellite launched aboard Arianespace’s Vega rocket Thursday. Vega lifted off from its launch pad at the Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou, French Guiana, at 22:50:35 local time (01:50 UTC on Friday). PRISMA, or Precursore Iperspettrale della Missione Applicativa, is a small hyperspectral imaging satellite that has been constructed by OHB Italia…
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Arianespace’s Vega rocket conducts Mohammed VI-B launch
Arianespace’s Vega rocket launched the second Moroccan remote-sensing satellite, Mohammed VI-B (MN35-B) 0 building on the footsteps of its twin MN35-A launched also by Vega just over one year ago. Launch occurred at the top of the launch window at 01:42 (UTC) on Wednesday from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. The MOHAMMED VI – B…