Tag: Vega
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Arianespace’s Vega rocket launches ESA’s Aeolus
Arianespace’s lightweight Vega rocket has deployed the European Space Agency’s Aeolus climate science satellite Wednesday in an evening launch from the Centre Spatial Guyanais at Kourou, French Guiana. The mission set sail at the instantaneous launch opportunity timed at 18:20:09 local time (21:20 UTC). Aeolus, also known as the Atmospheric Dynamics Mission (ADM) or ADM-Aeolus,…
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Arianespace Vega rocket launches Mohammed VI-A
Europe’s Vega rocket has conducted its eleventh launch Tuesday, deploying Morocco’s Mohammed VI – A satellite following a late-night liftoff from the Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou, French Guiana. The instantaneous launch opportunity occurred at 22:42:31 local time (01:42 UTC). Vega Launch: The Mohammed VI – A spacecraft is Morocco’s second satellite and the country’s…
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Vega successfully launches VENµS and OPTSAT 3000
Arianespace’s small launcher, the Vega rocket, successfully conducted the launch of the VENµS and OPTSAT 3000 satellites on Tuesday evening in what was the seventh Earth observation mission for the lightweight rocket. Lift off occurred on schedule at 01:58 UTC from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Vega Launch: The four-stage launcher is tailored to…
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Sentinel-2B rides Vega to join Copernicus fleet
Arianespace’s small launcher, the Vega rocket, has lofted the Sentinel-2B Earth observation satellite on Monday night (local time). Sentinel-2B becomes the fifth satellite launched for Copernicus following its lift off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch was on schedule at 01:49 UTC (Tuesday). Sentinel-2B Launch: Sentinel is the space segment of Copernicus,…
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Vega successfully launches Earth Observation spacecraft for Turkey
Arianespace’s Vega rocket successfully launched Turkey’s first governmental satellite for Earth observation. The launch of the Göktürk-1A satellite occurred on schedule with a T-0 of 13:51 GMT on Monday, lifting off from launch pad ELA-1 at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana – ahead of a 57 minute ride to orbit. Vega Launch: The four-stage launcher…
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Busy December to mark end of year global launch salvo
Up to 15 orbital launches are set to take place during a very busy December, not counting the opening mission of the month that resulted in the loss of the Progress MS-04 cargo ship that was set to dock with the ISS over the weekend. This month is likely to include the highly anticipated return…
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Vega launches with Peru Sat-1 & SkySat 4, 5, 6, 7 payload
Arianespace were in action on Thursday, with the launch of a Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the Peru Sat-1 and SkySats 4, 5, 6, and 7. Liftoff was on schedule at 01:43:35 UTC on 16 September (21:43:35 EDT on 15 September) with the nearly all solid fueled Vega…
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Take a last look at the Vega rocket’s middle-of-the-night liftoff
Europe’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, carrying high-tech thrusters and ultra-sensitive motion sensors to be used in a future gravitational wave detection mission, blasted off from French Guiana early Thursday aboard a nearly 100-foot-tall (30-meter) Vega rocket. After lifting off at 0404 GMT Thursday (1:04 a.m. French Guiana time; 11:04 p.m. EDT Wednesday), the four-stage Vega booster…
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European probe blasts off on gravitational wave demonstration
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin KOUROU, French Guiana — A solid-fueled Vega launcher fired through a low cloud deck and sped into orbit from the South American jungle early Thursday with a pioneering European spacecraft that marks a key step in a century-long quest to detect elusive gravitational waves predicted…
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Vega successfully lofts LISA Pathfinder
The European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder mission launched atop a Vega rocket Thursday morning, beginning a year-long mission to demonstrate technologies that could be used for future missions to observe gravity waves. The launch – initially delayed 24 hours – took place at 04:04 UTC from the European spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. Vega Launch:…