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Décollage de Vega le 1er août

Pour son dixième succès d’affilée, Vega a mis en orbite les deux satellites d’observation de la Terre pour des applications civiles et militaires : OPTSAT-3000 pour le Ministère italien de la Défense ...

Perfect 10: the lightweight Vega orbits OPTSAT-3000 and Venµs on a milestone success

For the second time this year – and the 10th overall since entering service in 2012 – Vega has successfully launched a payload from the Spaceport, with this lightweight vehicle’s latest mission delive...

OptSat 3000 & VENÂµS (VENUS)

Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Earth Science

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

OptSat 3000 is an Earth imaging satellite built by Israel Aerospace Industries for the Italian military. It will be placed in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 600km. It will have a mission life of more than six years. Launched along with it is VENÂµS, Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite. This is a near polar sun-synchronous orbit microsatellite jointly built by the Israeli Space Agency and CNES. Besides the scientific mission of terrestrial environment monitoring, the satellite is also tasked with verification and validation of the Hall Effect thruster in space.

Vega

Family:
Configuration:

Vega is the smallest lifter in the current Arianespace family.

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Specifications

Stages
4
Length
29.9 m
Diameter
3.025 m
Fairing Diameter
2.6 m
Launch Mass
137.0 T
Thrust
2974.0 kN

Family

Name
Vega
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Full Name
Vega

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
$37000000
Low Earth Orbit
1500.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
1450.0 kg

Avio S.p.A

(Avio)

CEO: Giulio Ranzo Founded: 1908 Successes: 0 Failures: 0 Pending: 24

Agency Type:

Avio S.p.A. is an Italian company operating in the aerospace sector with its head office in Colleferro near Rome, Italy. Founded in 1908, it is present in Italy and abroad with different commercial offices and 10 production sites.

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Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)

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