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Sentinel-1C installed on top of Vega-C

Proba-3 encapsulated

Proba-3 infographic: In a nutshell

Sentinel-1C's rocket fairing signed

Proba-3 infographic: Double spacecraft mission

Proba-3 infographic: Lining up with the Sun

Proba-3 atop upper stage

Vega-C rocket with Sentinel-1C satellite artist's impression

Proba-3 Occulter eclipsing Sun for Coronagraph spacecraft

Proba-3 infographic: Formation flying to a fingernail's thickness

Proba-3 infographic: Orbit and ground control

Proba-3 spacecraft stack

Proba-3 separation from PSLV-XL upper stage

Proba-3 within PSLV-XL launcher

Proba-3 infographic: New views of the Sun and space weather

Proba-3 spacecraft aligned above Earth

Proba-3 infographic: Spacecraft

Last look at Sentinel-1C

Hoisting Sentinel-1C inside Vega-C's fairing to the top of the rocket

Getting Sentinel-1C inside Vega-C's fairing ready for transport

Moving Sentinel-1C inside Vega-C's fairing out of the payload facility

Encapsulating Sentinel-1C inside Vega-C's fairing

Sentinel-1C inside one half of Vega-C's fairing

Sentinel-1C ready for encapsulation in Vega-C's fairing

Limited edition: SpacePep’s n°1 to celebrate 45 years of Ariane.

SpacePep’s n°1 ‘The authentic’, with Ariane 5 inserts in the handles and precious woods from the forests of French Guiana.

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Official Logo of the Polakat association

22/11/2024 155 views 1 likes

A Fontenille-Pataud master cutler uses a pencil to trace the outline of a knife onto the selected piece of precious wood that will form its handle.

Blueprints illustrating parts of the rockets used for the steel insert within the knive’s wooden handles

Hoisting Sentinel-1C onto Vega-C's Vampire payload adapter

Moving Sentinel-1C to Vega-C's Vampire payload adapter

Connecting Sentinel-1C to Vega-C's Vampire payload adapter

Placing Sentinel-1C on Vega-C's Vampire payload adapter

Teddy Peponnet – Founder of SpacePep’s

Proba-3: Firing laser!

On 10 November 2024, the final of three Australian CubeSats reentered the atmosphere. Like many other small satellite missions, they benefitted from the SMILE lab for tracking and monitoring, located at ESOC.

Signing Prometheus and Themis contract rider

Prometheus and Themis contract rider signature ceremony

Sentinel-1C separation from Vega-C

Artist's view of Sentinel-1C during fairing separation

Artist impression of Sentinel-1C in the Vega-C launcher

Orbex Prime

Spectrum launch vehicle fit check

RFA hot fire test in Saxavord

HyImpulse suborbital rocket flight

Aerial view of the Centre de Lancement CDL-3 at Europe's Spaceport

Europe Spaceport's launch control centre

Jupiter 2 control centre during Ariane 6 first flight

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