Vega-C | LARES-2 (Maiden flight)
Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 employees. ESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana.
LARES-2 (Maiden flight)
Maiden flight of the Vega-C launch vehicle, carrying the LARES-2 passive satellite. It is a 40 cm diameter sphere with laser mirrors to study the Earth gravitational field and relativistic effects. Also onboard are six European research cubesats.
Vega-C
Height 30.10 Meters
Max Stages 4
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 2974 kN
Diameter 3.00 Meters
Mass To LEO 1500 kg
Liftoff Mass 136 Tonnes
Launch Success 2
Consecutive Success 1
Maiden Flight 2022-07-13
Launch Failures 1
Updates
spacevogel
2022-07-13T15:30:26+0000
Launch announced a success on the webcast
spacevogel
2022-07-13T13:13:42+0000
Liftoff
spacevogel
2022-07-13T12:58:08+0000
New T-0
spacevogel
2022-07-13T11:40:15+0000
New T-0
Jay
2022-07-04T18:06:53+0000
Setting GO and adjusting NET
Jay
2022-07-04T17:56:42+0000
NET July 13, pending suitable conditions for launch
SwGustav
2022-06-21T16:55:28+0000
Setting GO
Nosu
2022-06-07T16:09:58+0000
Targeting July 7 at 11:13 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-06-07T14:30:24+0000
NET July 7
Nosu
2022-06-01T15:35:00+0000
Targeting the first week of July
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-05-19T17:03:39+0000
NET July 2022
Nosu
2022-01-28T20:06:18+0000
NET May
Nosu
2021-11-17T17:03:07+0000
NET April 2022
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