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Arianespace Flight VV10 / OPTSAT-3000 and Venµs

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 ...

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-30...

OptSat 3000 & VENÂµS (VENUS)

Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Earth Science

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Ariane Launch Area 1 Kourou, 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: Vega
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 T
Thrust
2974 kN

Family

Name
Vega
Family
Vega
Variant
―
Alias
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Full Name
Vega

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
$37000000
Low Earth Orbit
1500 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
―
Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
1450 kg

Arianespace

CEO: Stéphane Israël Founded: 1980 Successes: 125 Failures: 7 Pending: 34

Agency Type: Commercial

Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America.

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Kourou, French Guiana

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