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Arianespace targets early 2021 for Vega return-to-flight
Spaceflight Now · 18 Dec 2020
Presenting the results of an inquiry into a European Vega rocket failure last month, officials said Friday that misleading instructions and inadequate preflight checks caused teams to overlook wrongly-installed cables on...
Arianespace launches 36 OneWeb satellites from Russia for the U.K.
NASASpaceflight · 18 Dec 2020
Arianespace, contracted through OneWeb, used a Russian Soyuz 2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage to place 36 new OneWeb satellites into orbit for the British government. The move resumed OneWeb launch operations after...
Europe and Russia launch Emirati military/civilian Earth imaging satellite
NASASpaceflight · 1 Dec 2020
Arianespace has used — with Russia’s support — a Soyuz ST-A rocket to launch a joint military and civilian Earth imaging satellite for the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces from the Guiana Space Centre near Kourou, Frenc...
Soyuz launches Falcon Eye 2 satellite for UAE
SpaceNews · 1 Dec 2020
An Arianespace Soyuz rocket successfully launched a reconnaissance satellite for the United Arab Emirates Dec. 1 after months of delays caused by technical problems and the pandemic.
Arianespace traces cause of Vega launch failure to ‘human error’
Spaceflight Now · 17 Nov 2020
Improperly installed cables on the Vega rocket’s upper stage control system apparently caused the launcher to tumble minutes after liftoff Monday night, a failure that resulted in the loss of a Spanish Earth observation...
Human error blamed for Vega launch failure
SpaceNews · 17 Nov 2020
Arianespace executives said Nov. 17 that the failure of a Vega launch the previous day was caused when the rocket’s upper stage tumbled out of control due to incorrectly installed cables in a control system.
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
NASASpaceflight · 16 Nov 2020
Arianespace suffered another issue with its Vega rocket during the launch of two Earth observation satellites named SEOSAT-Ingenio and TARANIS for Spain and France, respectively.