17 November 2020
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
... to lift between 300 kg and 1.5 tonnes of payload depending on the orbit and altitude. ESA’s upcoming Vega-C, a more powerful version of Vega, will offer an extra 700 kg of capacity and enlarged volume within a wider launcher fairing at a similar...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
...that the balloon aerostat experiment remained part of Vega project. The Vega project made USSR space research open and .... Exploring Phobos After the brilliant results of the Vega project, Soviet scientists and engineers were enthusiastic about...
18 March 2016
President of ISA Against Avio Takeover
... Space agency spoke out against a French industrial takeover of Italy's Avio, the primary contractor for the Vega small-satellite launcher. In a statement posted on the agency’s website, Roberto Battiston said Italian authorities “have to guarantee...
21 November 2017
First interstellar asteroid looks nothing like expected
... that `Oumuamua appeared roughly from the direction of the star Vega in the northern constellation Lyra, however, given the length of... the interstellar object to make its journey here, that Vega was not near that position when the asteroid was there...
24 August 2018
Astrocast and D-Orbit announce InOrbit NOW launch agreement
...the SmallSat Conference in Logan, Utah, the agreement calls for the Astrocast nanosatellites to be launched onboard an Arianspace VEGA or Vega C vehicle (the last generation of Europe’s small launcher) from Kourou, French Guiana between late 2019 and...
29 March 2016
To build super-Earths near host star 'dead zones' are required say researchers
... own Solar System. So, why isn’t Earth accompanied by a much larger neighbour? Researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas studying planet formation have suggested that the key to building super-Earths within orbits close to the...
