Rocket Vega Image Credit: Arianespace Arianespace Status: Retired Price: $37.0 million Liftoff Thrust: 2,200 kN Payload to LEO: 1,436 kg Stages: 4 Strap-ons: 0 Rocket Height: 29.9 m Fairing Diameter: 2.6 m Fairing Height: 7.88 m ...
Project VEGA, whose main objecture was solid fuel micrograne motor of 100 mm to 160 mm diameter improvements and interconnecting motors in parallel spree and sequentially in stages has been completed with rocket VEGA - IV. This rocket has never been launched and it is still in storage....
The integration of Vega's first, second and third stages is now complete at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The new rocket is moving full speed ahead towards its maiden flight at the end of January. The first Vega launch campaign began in November with the installation and testing insid...
Vega was designed to carry up to 1,500 kilograms of payloads to a 700-kilometer circular polar orbit. The rocket consisted of three booster stages burning solid propellant and an liquid-propellant forth stage known as Attitude and Vernier Upper Module or AVUM. All three booster stages consist ...
Studies of Vega help astronomers learn more about solar systems that are in the early stages of their formation. Because the Earth's axis wobbles, our perception of north gradually shifts to different stars over a 26,000-year cycle. Vega was the North Star several thousand years ago, and ...
1st-ever orbital rocket launch from European soil falls to Earth and explodes seconds into flight Number of stages: 4 — 3 with solid propellants; 4th stage is the AVUM (Attitude & Vernier Upper Module) with liquid-propellant Payload capacity to 125 miles (200 km): 5,500 lbs. (2,500...
On November 17th, a Vega rocket lifted off from French Guiana with its payload of two Earth observation satellites. The booster, coincidentally the 17th Vega to fly, performed perfectly: the solid-propellant rocket engines that make up its first three stages burned in succession. But soon after...
The University of Granada (UGR) and the Geological Survey of Spain have analyzed the variations of ground subsidences and elevations in the Vega de Granada area in southeast Spain and proven that the region sinks up to one centimeter per year during dry
The modular Vega Launcher Family is being developed for dedicated and multiple launches of lightsats. The concept of Vega's most powerful version, the Vega ''K3'', is based on a three-stage design which utilizes solid rocket motors (SRM) for each stage to achieve a low cost family of ...
The erosion of rocket-nozzle ablative thermal protection materials during the solid-rocket-motor burning time needs to be accounted for to get reliable performance predictions, especially for long-duration firings and/or small nozzles (that is, upper stages). This work numerically investigates the ...