The Arianespace <\/b>Vega mission VV17 on Monday night failed. The Vega rocket took off from the Guiana Space Center (GSC) in French Guiana on Monday at 8:52 p.m. ET. But eight minutes after liftoff, \u201cfollowing the first ignition of the engine of the Avum upper stage, a deviation of trajectory was identified, entailing the loss of the mission,\u201d Arianespace said in a press release.<\/p>\n
It was carrying SEOSAT-Ingenio for Spain\u2019s Center for Development of Industrial Technology<\/b> (CDTI), and TARANIS for CNES<\/b>, the French space agency.<\/p>\n
[Latest: Arianespace Says Cable Issue Caused Vega Launch Failure, Starts Investigation]<\/em><\/p>\n Telemetry data analyses are in progress to determine the cause of the failure. The launch provider plans to hold a press conference on Tuesday, Nov. 17. <\/p>\n This is the second Vega failure after the July 2019 failure that lost a satellite for the United Arab Emirates. This was Arianespace\u2019s seventh launch of the year and the 17th Vega launch. <\/p>\n The primary payload SEOSAT-Ingenio is first Spanish Earth Observation (EO) satellite. It was built by Airbus Defence and Space<\/b>. TARANIS is a microsatellite built by CNES and designed to observe upper-atmospheric lightning events, known as transient luminous events (TLEs). <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Arianespace Vega mission VV17 on Monday night failed. The Vega rocket took off from the Guiana Space Center (GSC) in French Guiana on Monday at 8:52 p.m. ET. But eight minutes after liftoff, \u201cfollowing the first ignition of the engine of the Avum upper stage, a deviation of trajectory was identified, entailing the loss of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}