Vega-C | LARES-2 (Maiden flight)
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Launch Window
July 13, 2022, 1:13 p.m. - July 13, 2022, 1:13 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
July 13, 2022, 1:13 p.m. - July 13, 2022, 1:13 p.m.
Maiden flight of the Vega-C launch vehicle, carrying the LARES-2 passive satellite. It is a 40 cm diameter sphere with laser mirrors to study the Earth gravitational field and relativistic effects. Also onboard are six European research cubesats.
Launch announced a success on the webcast
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Vega-C is a single-body rocket nearly 35 m high with that weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad. 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. Vega-C's P120C first stage replaces Vega’s smaller P80 to provide a significant increase in thrust at liftoff. It is also used as boosters (2 or 4) for the Ariane 6 rocket.
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INFO WIKI
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