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 1
Consecutive Success 1
Maiden Flight 2022-07-13
Launch Failures 1
Updates
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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