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Vega: 13 launches 13 successes
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- Title Vega: 13 launches 13 successes
- Released: 22/11/2018
- Length 00:02:09
- Language English
- Footage Type Documentary
- Copyright ESA - European Space Agency
- Description
Europe's Vega launch vehicle operating from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has a flawless record.
Vega serves a wide range of missions and payload configurations, responding to different market opportunities. It is the ideal launcher for most scientific and Earth observation missions, benchmarked to loft 1500 kg into a 700 km-altitude circular orbit at 90° inclination.
Based on this success a more powerful Vega, Vega-C, now in development is set to launch in mid-2019 offering greater performance at no additional cost.
Vega-C shares technology with Europe's other new launcher Ariane 6. The P120C solid fuel motor will be used as the first stage for Vega-C and two or four will be used as strap-on boosters for Ariane 6.