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Arianespace Vega
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Vega is a retired European small-lift orbital launch vehicle that flew 22 missions (20 successful) between 2012 and 2024 from the SLV-ZEM pad at Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana.[1][2] The four-stage vehicle used three solid motors (P80, Zefiro-23, Zefiro-9) and a restartable liquid upper stage (AVUM, RD-843 engine, UDMH/NTO, up to 5 ignitions), with a 2.6 m diameter fairing.[3][4] Total liftoff mass was 137 tonnes and vehicle height 30 m.[1]
Reference payload capacity was 1,500 kg to a 700 km orbit at 90 deg inclination, the figure ESA gives for its SSO-labelled reference orbit.[1] The Arianespace Vega User's Manual (Issue 4, 2014, sec 2.4.2) gives 1,430 kg for the same 700 km, 90 deg inclination reference polar mission.[5] LEO capacity reached approximately 1,963 kg on an elliptic 1,500 x 200 km orbit.[5] The final flight (VV23, 2024-09-05) carried Sentinel-2C.[2] Notable EO payloads include Sentinel-2A (2015), Sentinel-2B (2017), Sentinel-3B (2018), PROBA-V (2013), and PRISMA (2019).[1][4]
Supply chain position
- [1]Vega - ESA Space Transportationagency doc2026-06-16
- [2]Vega (rocket) - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-16
- [3]The Vega stages - ESAagency doc2026-06-16
- [4]Vega (European Advanced Generation Carrier) - eoPortalcommunity2026-06-16
- [5]Vega User's Manual, Issue 4 (Arianespace, April 2014)operator engineering2026-09-29
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@misc{eoatlas:launch_services:arianespace-vega,
title = {Arianespace Vega},
author = {{EO-Atlas}},
publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://eo-atlas.org/launch_services/arianespace-vega}
}