Vega
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VideoLive coverage: Europe’s 20th Vega rocket launches from French Guiana
A Vega launcher with three French military reconnaissance satellites lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 4:27 a.m. EST (0927 GMT) Tuesday.
Arianespace launches second Pléiades Neo remote sensing satellite
A European Vega rocket launched from French Guiana Monday night with Airbus's second Pléiades Neo remote sensing satellite, two European Space Agency CubeSats to track space weather, a student-built nanosatellite from Italy, and a small maritime surveillance payload from the French company Unseenlabs.
Vega rocket set to launch next Airbus Pléiades Neo remote sensing satellite
An Airbus-owned commercial optical Earth-imaging satellite and four small CubeSat rideshare payloads are set for launch Monday night from French Guiana aboard a European Vega rocket.
“Big relief” as Europe’s Vega rocket returns to service with successful launch
A European Vega rocket deployed six commercial satellites in orbit, including a new Airbus-built eye-in-the-sky for high-resolution Earth-imaging, on a successful launch from French Guiana on Wednesday night after two of the last three Vega missions failed.
VideoLive coverage: Arianespace launches Vega rocket from French Guiana
After two of the last three Vega rocket launches ended in failure, Arianespace launched another Vega launcher from French Guiana at 9:50 p.m. EDT Wednesday (0150 GMT Thursday) with Airbus's Pléiades Neo 3 commercial Earth observation satellite and five secondary payloads.
Vega rocket’s return-to-flight launch set for Wednesday night
Six satellites are set to ride a light-class European Vega rocket into orbit from French Guiana on Wednesday night, the first Vega launch since a failure last year that officials attributed to human error.
Arianespace targets early 2021 for Vega return-to-flight
Presenting the results of an inquiry into a European Vega rocket failure last month, officials said Friday that misleading instructions and inadequate preflight checks caused teams to overlook wrongly-installed cables on the launcher's upper stage steering system. Arianespace aims to resume Vega launches before the end of March.
Arianespace traces cause of Vega launch failure to ‘human error’
Inverted cables on the Vega rocket's upper stage control system apparently caused the launcher to tumble minutes after liftoff Monday night, a failure that resulted in the loss of a Spanish Earth observation satellite and a French research probe, Arianespace officials said Tuesday.
European Vega rocket suffers second failure in three launches
A European Vega rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after launching from French Guiana carrying a Spanish land imaging satellite and a French research probe with a combined value of nearly $400 million.
VideoLive coverage: Arianespace probing “anomaly” shortly after Vega launch
A Vega rocket fired into space at 8:52 p.m. EST Monday (0152 GMT Tuesday) from the Guiana Space Center in South America, but the mission deviated from its planned trajectory. The rocket was boosting a Spanish Earth observation satellite and a French research payload into orbit.