01 December 2015
LISA Pathfinder set for liftoff
... free-fall and measurements of their motion will be taken with unprecedented accuracy. LISA Pathfinder aboard the Vega launcher – fully assembled in its mobile gantry at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. “LISA Pathfinder is a complex...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... in French Guyana, where Ariane (and more recently Vega) rockets are operated. Additionally, an important market development...how Soyuz can complement in the long run Ariane and Vega launchers, and demonstrates the flexibility of the Arianespace launch...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
...264 kg, which could be lifted by a single light-class Vega launcher. Although nanosatellite contributions to the total mass of small ... kg, which could be lifted by four light-class Vega launchers. The highest contribution to the total small spacecraft...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
.... These include the Soviet Union’s Vega 1 and 2 which were launched in 1984 to target Venus and... Halley’s Comet. The Vega spacecraft, while en route to Venus deployed a pair of landers in addition...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
...stated that Europe’s traditional big launchers (like Ariane or Vega from French Guiana) are well served but perceives a gap... for its heavy-lift Ariane rockets and medium-to-light Vega rockets. While that facility remains indispensable, the rapidly ...
24 May 2021
A CubeSat that produces visible light on the ground to be launched in NASA initiative
..., they will see a flash from the satellite in the night sky,” said Principal Investigator Jaime Sanchez de la Vega, of Vega Space Systems, According to the CubeSat’s website, its mission objective is “to produce a light visible to the naked eye...
