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The first element of Europe’s future evolution of the Vega launch vehicle for use
beyond 2025 was successfully tested at Avio in Colleferro, Italy on 13 November 2018.
This hot firing proves a 3D-printed small-scale prototype thrust chamber of the M10 upper stage engine fuelled by liquid oxygen–methane.