Vega | Sentinel-2C

Vega | Sentinel-2C

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-2C

Sentinel-2C is the third satellite in the Sentinel-2 constellation, which is designed to provide high-resolution optical imagery for land services.

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Vega


Height 29.90 Meters

Max Stages 4

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 2974 kN

Diameter 3.03 Meters

Mass To LEO 1500 kg

Liftoff Mass 137 Tonnes


Launch Success 20

Consecutive Success 5

Maiden Flight 2012-02-13

Launch Failures 2


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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin

2024-09-05T03:20:00+0000

Sentinel-2C signals acquired.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2024-09-05T02:53:00+0000

Sentinel-2C separation.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2024-09-05T01:50:00+0000

Liftoff.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2024-09-05T01:41:00+0000

Tweaked T-0.

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LL2

2024-09-05T01:12:00+0000

Official Webcast by arianespace has started

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Nosu

2024-09-04T06:16:11+0000

Setting GO

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SwGustav

2024-09-04T00:40:40+0000

Scrubbed due to ground electrical issues

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Nosu

2024-08-28T08:32:41+0000

Adding seconds to T-0

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Cosmic_Penguin

2024-07-31T16:05:04+0000

GO for launch.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-12-14T14:31:35+0000

NET September 2024.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-12-05T14:41:45+0000

Launcher swapped with one for Sentinel-2C in summer 2023.

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Nosu

2022-11-29T16:04:57+0000

Adding launch mid-2024

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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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