Watch Vega

17/06/2020
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Tune in to ESA Web TV on Friday 19 June from 02:36 BST / 03:36 CEST to observe the return to flight of Vega on its debut rideshare mission devoted to gentle satellites.

Vega will carry off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana carrying 53 satellites on its new dispenser known as the Small Spacecraft Mission Service, or SSMS.

Vega’s return to flight follows the quick and environment friendly completion of corrective measures and actions carried out by trade with ESA within the lead, following suggestions made by the Impartial Inquiry Fee which analysed the failure of Vega flight VV15 on 11 July 2019.

This can be a proof-of-concept flight to show and validate a brand new rideshare launch service for small satellites. Developed by ESA, the SSMS dispenser is light-weight and has a modular design that may be configured to satisfy the necessities of the mission, securing something from the smallest 1 kg CubeSats as much as 500 kg minisatellites. There are 21 clients sharing this launch.

This new service is meant to develop house applied sciences in Europe by making it simpler for these with gentle satellites to seek out handy launch alternatives. These using collectively share the price of launch, making it extra inexpensive too. This flight is partly funded by the European Union underneath the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme.

Vega will launch its 53 satellites progressively in a coordinated sequence in a Solar-synchronous orbit about 500 km above Earth. ESA has contributed to the event of 4 payloads on board – the 113 kg ESAIL microsatellite and three CubeSats: SIMBA, PICASSO and FSSCat which carries pioneering AI expertise named Φ-sat-1.

This mission will final 124 minutes.

ESA Net TV dwell transmission (all occasions CEST)

Watch dwell through ESA Web TV 03:36 – 04:54

Key moments:

03:51 – Liftoff

04:31 – Separation from Vega of the primary batch of satellites

04:43 – Separation from Vega of the second batch of satellites together with ESAIL

[Finish of dwell transmission at 04:54, proceed to comply with this launch on Twitter] 

05:32 – Separation from Vega of first CubeSat

05:36 – Last CubeSat separation

05:55 – Finish of the Vega mission

Comply with on-line

Be a part of the dialog on-line with the hashtag #VV16. 

For dwell updates comply with @esa, @vega_sts and @esa_sts

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