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Live coverage: Turkish reconnaissance launches on Vega rocket
A Vega rocket lifted off from a tropical launch pad in French Guiana at 1351 GMT (8:51 a.m. EST) Monday with Gokturk 1, a sharp-eyed reconnaissance satellite built in France and owned by the Turkish armed forces.
Launch timeline for Vega’s liftoff with Gokturk 1
Turkey's most advanced Earth observation satellite will ride a four-stage Vega rocket into polar orbit nearly 435 miles above Earth to begin collecting high-resolution images for Turkish military and security authorities.
Turkish military satellite joined with Vega launcher
A European-built reconnaissance satellite for the Turkish armed forces has been fastened to the top of its Vega launcher for liftoff from French Guiana next week.
Vega rocket hauls up quintet of Earth observation satellites
Europe's solid-fueled Vega booster vaulted away from a launch pad in the South American jungle late Thursday and deftly delivered five sharp-eyed Earth observation satellites into two different orbits for the Peruvian government and a Google-owned mapping company.
Timeline for the Vega rocket’s seventh launch
Two orbits. Five satellites. Five upper stage burns. Follow the key events scheduled during the European Vega rocket's launch of the PeruSat 1 high-resolution reconnaissance satellite and four commercial eyes-in-the-sky owned by Google's Terra Bella imaging company.
Live coverage: Vega rocket blasts off from French Guiana on commercial flight
A solid-fueled Vega rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Thursday with five Earth observation satellites for Peru and the Google subsidiary Terra Bella. The four-stage booster fired away from its tropical launch pad right on time at 9:43 p.m. EDT (0143 GMT Friday).
Google satellites, Peruvian payload stacked for launch on Vega rocket
Five Earth-imaging spacecraft for the Peruvian government and Google's Terra Bella satellite subsidiary are enclosed inside the nose cone of a Vega rocket for liftoff Thursday from French Guiana.
VideoTake a last look at the Vega rocket’s middle-of-the-night liftoff
Videos and photos help tell the story of Thursday's launch of Europe's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, carrying high-tech thrusters and ultra-sensitive motion sensors to be used in a future gravitational wave detection mission, from French Guiana aboard a nearly 100-foot-tall (30-meter) Vega rocket.
European probe blasts off on gravitational wave demonstration
A solid-fueled Vega launcher fired through a low cloud deck and sped into orbit from the South American jungle early Thursday with a pioneering European spacecraft that marks a key step in a century-long quest to detect elusive gravitational waves predicted to permeate the cosmos.
Live coverage: Vega rocket launches with LISA Pathfinder
A Vega rocket has blasted off with Europe's LISA Pathfinder tech demo mission, a probe heading to a station a million miles from Earth to test systems for a future gravitational wave observatory. Liftoff from French Guiana occurred at 0404 GMT Thursday (11:04 p.m. EST Wednesday).