AstronautAtlas
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Space programs and missions · A guided course
Small payloads, shared rides and the evidence behind recovery
Explore the European Vega and Vega-C launchers through mission selection, staged propulsion, rideshare integration and separate failure investigations.
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Vega before the June 2015 Sentinel-2A launch, with its P80FW first stage integrated in the stack. This is the original Vega configuration, not Vega-C. Display image resized and compressed.
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Connect a launch plume to the forces, mass, and mission choices behind it.
From a scientific question to evidence that the design works
The Vega launcher program
Small payloads, shared rides and the evidence behind recovery
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