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Launch update
 
Vega's maiden flight from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana lifted off today. Flight VV01 carried the LARES laser relativity satellite from Italy’s space agency ASI with seven small CubeSats and ALMASat-1 into orbit.
 
 
 


 
 
 
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