LARES-2 (Maiden flight)
Vega-C
European Space Agency
Mission
LARES-2 (Maiden flight)
Type: Earth Science
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.
Location
Ariane Launch Area 1
Kourou, French Guiana
315 rockets have launched from Kourou, French Guiana.
Rocket
Vega-C – Arianespace
Family: Vega
Length: 30.1 m
Diameter: 3 m
Launch Mass: 136 T
Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 1500 kg
The Vega-C was manufactured by Arianespace with the first launch on 2022-07-13. Vega-C has 1 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 1 launches.
Agency
European Space Agency
Type: Multinational
Abbreviation: ESA
Administration: Johann-Dietrich Wörner
Founded: 1975
Country: AUT,BEL,CZE,DNK,FIN,FRA,DEU,GRC,IRE,ITA,LUZ,NLD,NOR,POL,PRT,ROU,ESP,SWE,CHE,GBR
The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 employees.
ESA’s space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana.
