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Vega-C

ESA’s Biomass; on the launch pad, the mission and Europe’s Spaceport

April 23, 2025

ESA’s Biomass satellite, encapsulated within a Vega-C rocket fairing, has been rolled out to the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of liftoff, planned for 29 April […]

Filed Under: Ariane 6, Arianespace, Biomass Satellite (Airbus, L3Harris, ESA), Business Moves, Europe's Spaceport, European Space Agency (ESA), European Space Agency Biomass Mission, Fairings, Forest Biomass, Forestry, French Guiana, Kourou, Kourou Space Center, Launch Pad, Mission, P-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar, Production, Production Facility, Vega C, Vega-C

ESA launches Copernicus Sentinel-1C aboard Vega-C from French Guiana

December 5, 2024

The third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite, Sentinel-1C, has launched aboard a Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 5 December 2024 at 22:20 […]

Filed Under: Copernicus, Environmental Changes, Environmental Monitoring, European Space Agency (ESA), French Guiana, Payload Hosting, Radar Imaging, Sentinel-1C, Vega-C Tagged With: Featured

Mechanical issue delays ESA’s Vega-C’s launch of Sentinel-1C to Thursday

December 4, 2024

Update: launch postponed to Thursday 5 December 2024. Due to a mechanical issue preventing the withdrawal of the mobile gantry, the launch chronology has been stopped.  The earliest targeted launch […]

Filed Under: Arctic, Ariane 6, Constellation, Copernicus, Environmental Changes, European Space Agency (ESA), French Guiana, Kourou Space Center, Radar Imaging, Research, SAR, SAR Imagery, Satellites, Vega-C, Weather Imagery

Arianespace will launch the EU’s Copernicus EO Sentinel-1C satellite

October 22, 2024

Earlier this month, Arianespace announced that the company will be launching the Sentinel-1C, a Copernicus satellite, for the European Commission within the scope of a contract signed with the European […]

Filed Under: Arianespace, Avio, AVUM+ rocket motor (AVIO), Copernicus Sentinel 2-C, Earth Observation (EO), European Commission, European Space Agency (ESA), European Union, French Guiana, Launch Vehicle, News, SAR, SAR, SAR Data, SAR Imagery, SAR Payload, Satellites, Sentinel, Sentinel-1C, Sentinel-2 Mission (ESA), SSO, Sun Synchronous (SSO), Thales Alenia Space, Vega C, Vega Launcher, Vega-C

Ariane Space readies for last Vega rocket launch to send Sentinel-2C on multispectral imager mission

September 2, 2024

The Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite is ready for liftof on 4 September 2024 (3 September Kourou time) from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch will be on ESA WebTV […]

Filed Under: Ariane 6, ArianeGroup, Arianespace, Avio, Copernicus, Copernicus Sentinel 2-C, Earth Observation Satellites, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Infrared, Liquid Propellant, Multispectral Imager, Optical Imagery, Propellant, Propellant Systems, Short Wave Infrared (SWIR), Vega C, Vega-C

Ariane 6’s wet dress rehearsal

June 26, 2024

The launch of the European Space Agency’s all-new Ariane 6 rocket gets ever-closer. Last week technicians at ESA’s Kourou, French Guiana spaceport completed a full ‘wet’ dress rehearsal of the […]

Filed Under: Ariane 6, Arianespace, Booster, Booster Recovery, Business Moves, ESA, Falcon 9, Launch, Launch Facilities, Launch Management, Milestone, Rocket, SpaceX, Vega-C

OQ Technology’s MACSAT 5G IoT mission launch date revealed

December 6, 2022

Following the recent 13 million euro Series A funding round, OQ Technology has announced March of 2023 as the planned launch date for the MACSAT mission. The on-orbit pathfinder mission, […]

Filed Under: 5G over Satellite, Comms, Constellation, IoT, Launch, Launch Systems, Launch Vehicle, LEO, Luxembourg, NanoAvionics, OQ Technology, Satellite Procurement, SmallSat, Vega-C

Atos provides testing equipment for improvements of European Space Agency’s Vega-C rocket

October 3, 2022

Atos is supporting the European Space Agency (ESA) in its planned improvements for Vega-C, the new single body rocket, whose inaugural launch took place on July 13, 2022. Atos contributes to this program by providing key […]

Filed Under: ESA, Europe, Launchers, Navigation, Rocket, Rocket Stage Launcher, SmallSat, Space Industry, Testing, Vega-C

ICEYE signs SAR smallsat launch agreement with SAB Launch Services

September 30, 2022

Last month, SAB Launch Services S.r.l., a company part of the SAB group that specializes in smallsat launch service provision on Arianespace missions, and ICEYE signed an agreement to fly […]

Filed Under: Earth Observation (EO), ICEYE, Launch, SAB Launch Services, SAR, Satellites, SmallSat, SMSS Dispenser, Vega-C

Curtiss-Wright provides the Vega-C launcher with the telemetry data system

July 25, 2022

Curtiss-Wright Defense Systems provided a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), telemetry data subsystem for the new Vega-C launcher. Vega-C is designed to deliver government, commercial and science payloads weighing up to 2,200 kg. […]

Filed Under: Business Moves, Contracts, COTS, Data Acquisition, Europe, Launchers, RF Transmission, SSO, Telemetry, USA, Vega-C

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