by David Todd | Apr 15, 2020 | commercial launch services, Launches, Military space, Seradata News
After delays to Vega’s launch schedule caused by a failure, the shutdown of the Kourou launch site in French Guiana due to the coronavirus outbreak was the last straw for the prospective Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation operator, Synspective. The... 
by David Todd | Sep 9, 2019 | ESA, Launches, Military space
An investigation has revealed the cause of the Vega launch failure on flight VV15, which lost the Falcon Eye 1 satellite causing an insurance loss of circa US$416 million. The sudden “violent” anomaly occurred after what appeared to be a successful launch from the... 
by David Todd | Jul 11, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News, Space Insurance
Launch vehicles usually have their first failure during their first ten flights, but the Avio-built Arianespace-operated Vega launch vehicle waited until its 15th flight to have its first. After what seemed to be a successful launch from Kourou in French Guiana at... 
by David Todd | May 21, 2019 | commercial launch services, ESA, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA/Earth Observation Programs directorate) have signed launch services contract for the launch on a Vega rocket of SEOSat (Spanish Earth Observation SATellite) for Spain’s Center for Development of Industrial... 
by David Todd | May 21, 2019 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites
Arianespace has announced that it has been selected by exactEarth to launch the 110 kg ESAIL satellite using a Vega as part of the launcher’s Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof of Concept (POC) flight from Kourou, French Guiana, in 2019. This final contract...
