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Vega-C | Sentinel-1C

Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)

Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

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Arianespace

Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America.

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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.

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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

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Nosu

2024-01-11T15:08:31+0000

NET November 15

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Nosu

2023-09-11T12:24:51+0000

TBD 2024

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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.

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Nosu

2022-04-10T07:10:52+0000

Adding launch

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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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