ESA worked intensively with industry to address the problem that occurred on 10 July 2019 on Vega VV15 and to ensure a safe return to flight as soon as possible. On the first failure since Vega’s inauguration in 2012, the rocket suffered an anomaly at 130 seconds 850 milliseconds into flight. The forward dome of Vega’s Zefiro-23 second stage motor allowed hot gas to enter the stage shortly after its ignition, causing the launch vehicle to break up. On 4 September 2019 after thorough investig...
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Unlike most small rockets at the time, Vega could place multiple payloads into separate orbits on a single flight. This versatility allowed for quicker, easier and cheaper access to space. Vega elements ; Vega became an ESA programme in June 1998, when the agency took over the small-launcher programme of Italy’s ASI space agency. As Vega operated commercially ESA refined and improved the launch system configuration and operations to lower costs by speeding up the time to launch. Evolving Vega
The first stage P120C, second stage Zefiro-40 and the third stage Zefiro-9 are all fueled by solid propellant. These motors, together with the AVUM+ liquid propulsion upper module, will allow Vega-C to lift payloads of up to 2300 kg to a reference 700 km altitude in polar orbit. The P120C first stage will burn for 130 s using 142 t of fuel to deliver a liftoff thrust of about 4500 kN. This will take Vega-C to an altitude of about 60 km in the first phase of flight before the second stage takes over. ...
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Vega-C elements ; Vega-C is based on the Vega launch vehicle. As with Vega, its main elements are three solid-propellant stages, an upper stage powered by a reignitable liquid-propellant engine and a payload fairing. The fairing at the top of Vega-C is 3.3 m in diameter and over 9 m tall, doubling the payload volume that Vega offered. Made of carbon fibre-polymer composite, this structure protects satellites from the thermal, acoustic, and aerodynamic stresses of liftoff and on the ascent throug...
ESA Member States have agreed upon the boundary conditions for Europe’s upcoming exploitation of Ariane 6 and Vega-C and request ESA to propose a roadmap for new and innovative space transportation...
“It is back to business at Europe’s Spaceport and we are proud that Vega returns to flight to prove a new dedicated launch service. Europe’s first Small Spacecraft Mission Service opens the door for routine affordable access to space for small satellites – a new approach which shows we are addressing new market needs,” commented Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Space Transportation. Small satellites have opened up opportunities for companies and institutional users to access spac...
Everything rockets ; Environmentally sustainable space transport ; Call for interest: Sentinel-1C launch media event ; Building Vega-C flight VV25 on its launch pad ; Last rocket motor firing clears path for Vega-C launch ; Boosting SpaceForest sounding rocket ; Ariane 6 joint update report, 16 September 2024 ; A look back at Sentinel-2C's ride into space on Vega ; Space Team Europe for Vega: final liftoff ; Earth from Space: Sentinel-2 captures Sentinel-2
Under this contract, Avio as prime contractor to ESA for the Vega and Vega-C launcher systems will work with industrial partners to put into action a series of improvements intended to enable Vega-C to meet a wider range of market needs. These developments will also reduce launch service costs and comply with the payload allocation policy approved by the ESA Council, through the achievement, in the short term, of three major high-level objectives. The activities are intended to reduce the main production and operation tasks thereby decreasing t ...