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Europe’s Vega-C rocket makes first successful flight since crash in 2022

  • December 8, 2024
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Lightweight, four-stage launch vehicle Vega-S The European Space Agency (ESA) launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana on December 6 and successfully launched an Earth remote sensing satellite

Europe’s Vega-C rocket makes first successful flight since crash in 2022

Lightweight, four-stage launch vehicle Vega-S The European Space Agency (ESA) launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana on December 6 and successfully launched an Earth remote sensing satellite into orbit. Sentinel-1C.


This was the third launch of Vega-C and the first since the failure of the launch vehicle’s second stage in December 2022, which resulted in the complete loss of the payload of the Pléiades Neo 5 and Pléiades Neo 6 satellites.

Sentinel-1C It is designed to collect data on the state of the earth and ocean surface and monitor areas where natural disasters occur.

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