Vega-C
ActiveAvio S.p.A (Avio)
July 13, 2022
Description
Specifications
-
Minimum Stage
1 -
Max Stage
4 -
Length
30.1 m -
Diameter
3.0 m -
Fairing Diameter
― -
Launch Mass
136.0 T -
Thrust
2974.0 kN -
Apogee (Sub-Orbital)
1000.0 km
Family
-
Name
Vega-C -
Family
― -
Variant
― -
Alias
― -
Full Name
Vega-C
Payload Capacity
-
Launch Cost
$48000000 -
Low Earth Orbit
1500.0 kg -
Geostationary Transfer
Orbit
― -
Direct Geostationary
― -
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
―
Avio S.p.A
Commercial
CEO: Giulio Ranzo
Avio 1908Avio S.p.A. is an Italian company operating in the aerospace sector with its head office in Colleferro near Rome, Italy. Founded in 1908, it is present in Italy and abroad with different commercial offices and 10 production sites.
Upcoming Spaceflights
Vega-C | Biomass
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD March, 2025
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
Biomass is an Earth observation satellite launched as a part of ESA Earth Explorer program. It will be using a P-band synthetic aperture radar to collect data on the height of forests, allowing scientists to determine the amount of biomass and carbon stored there.
Sun-Synchronous OrbitVega-C | Sentinel-1D
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD June, 2025
Vega-C | CO3D
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD June, 2025
Vega-C | MAIA
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD November, 2025
Vega-C | MicroCarb
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2025
Vega-C | PLATiNO 1
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2025
Vega-C | IRIDE 2
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2025
Vega-C | IRIDE 1
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2025
Vega-C | Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2025
Vega-C | Korean Multi-purpose Satellite 6 (KOMPSAT-6)
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2025
Vega-C | EAGLE-1
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2025
Vega-C | Altius
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2025
Vega-C | FLEX
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2025
Vega-C | PLATiNO 2
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2025
Vega-C | CSG-3
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2025
Vega-C | KOMPSAT-7
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD January, 2026
Vega-C | Sentinel CO2M-B
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
Sentinel CO2M-B carries a near-infrared and shortwave-infrared spectrometer to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by human activity, providing the EU with a unique and independent source of information, to assess the effectiveness of policy measures, and to track their impact towards decarbonizing Europe and meeting national emission reduction targets.
Sun-Synchronous OrbitVega-C | Sentinel-3C
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2026
Vega-C | ClearSpace-1
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2026
Vega-C | CSG-4
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2026
Vega-C | Sentinel CO2M-A
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2026
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
Sentinel CO2M-A carries a near-infrared and shortwave-infrared spectrometer to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by human activity, providing the EU with a unique and independent source of information, to assess the effectiveness of policy measures, and to track their impact towards decarbonizing Europe and meeting national emission reduction targets.
Sun-Synchronous OrbitVega-C | Space Rider
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2027
Vega-C | FORUM
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2027
Vega-C | Sentinel-3D
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD November, 2028
Vega-C | Harmony
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2029
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
Harmony, ESA's 10th Earth Explorer mission, consists of 2 satellites that will orbit Earth in tandem with a Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite in various configurations. The Harmony satellites’ synthetic aperture radar instruments will receive the Sentinel-1 satellite's radar signals that bounce back, or ‘backscatter’, from Earth’s surface. At the same time, Harmony’s thermal-infrared instruments provide complementary observations of the sea surface as well as the position and motion of clouds above it.
Sun-Synchronous OrbitVega-C | TRUTHS
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
TBD December, 2030
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:
TRUTHS (Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio-Studies) is a a ‘standards laboratory in space’, setting the ‘gold standard’ reference for climate measurements. Carrying a cryogenic solar absolute radiometer and a hyperspectral imaging spectrometer as well as a novel onboard calibration system, TRUTHS is designed to make continuous measurements of incoming solar radiation and reflected radiation to evaluate Earth’s energy-in to energy-out ratio.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Vega-C | Sentinel-1C
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Dec. 5, 2024, 9:20 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Sentinel-1C carries an advanced radar technology to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface. It is a replacement satellite to complete the Sentinel-1 duo after Sentinel-1B suffered a technical anomaly.
Sun-Synchronous OrbitVega-C | Pléiades Neo 5 & 6
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Dec. 21, 2022, 1:47 a.m.
Vega-C | LARES-2 (Maiden flight)
Avio S.p.A | ItalyGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
July 13, 2022, 1:13 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Maiden flight of the Vega-C launch vehicle, carrying the LARES-2 passive satellite. It is a 40 cm diameter sphere with laser mirrors to study the Earth gravitational field and relativistic effects. Also onboard are six European research cubesats.
Medium Earth OrbitKAIROS
Flight 2
Space One Launch Pad - Spaceport Kii, JapanSecond flight of the KAIROS launch vehicle. 5 satellites for testing various technologies will be on board: * TATARA-1 * PARUS-T1A * SC-Sat1…
Falcon 9
O3b mPower 7 & 8
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USASeventh and eighth of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by…
Falcon 9
NROL-149
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USASixth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to…
Falcon 9
GPS III SV07 (RRT-1)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAGPS-III (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known a…
Long March 2D
PIESAT-2 09-12
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for the Chinese Earth observation satellite company PIESAT.
