Vega-C | Sentinel-1C
Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
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Sentinel-1C
Sentinel-1C carries an advanced radar technology to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface. It is a replacement satellite to complete the Sentinel-1 duo after Sentinel-1B suffered a technical anomaly.
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
SwGustav
2024-12-06T01:32:00+0000
Launch success
hitura-nobad
2024-12-05T21:20:00+0000
Liftoff!
LL2
2024-12-05T20:42:00+0000
Official Webcast by arianespace has started
Nosu
2024-12-04T19:37:00+0000
Delayed by a day due to a mechanical issue preventing the withdrawal of the mobile gantry
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-11-30T04:31:00+0000
Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-11-28T19:50:00+0000
Rescheduled for December 4.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-11-27T11:36:00+0000
Delayed due to launch vehicle problem, new date TBD.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-10-10T11:21:00+0000
NET December 3.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-09-18T11:08:00+0000
NET Late November.
Nosu
2024-01-11T15:08:31+0000
NET November 15
Nosu
2023-09-11T12:24:51+0000
TBD 2024
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-07-09T03:03:07+0000
Moving to Q1 2024 pending investigations into Vega-C 2nd stage motor re-qualification test firing failure.
Nosu
2022-04-10T07:10:52+0000
Adding launch
Programs
Copernicus
Copernicus is the European Union's Earth observation programme coordinated and managed for the European Commission by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU Member States. It aims at achieving a global, continuous, autonomous, high quality, wide range Earth observation capacity. Providing accurate, timely and easily accessible information to, among other things, improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure civil security.
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Sentinel-1C Pre-Launch Media Briefing
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Pre-launch media briefing for the Sentinel-1C mission which will be launched aboard a Vega-C rocket in early December from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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Building Vega-C flight VV25 on its launch pad
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ESA Targets 15 November for Vega C Return to Flight Mission
2023-10-02T14:32:36+0000
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2023-07-03T13:35:00+0000
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Vega C Return Delayed Following Static Fire Anomaly
2023-06-30T03:38:54+0000
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