The stain of Vega-C’s launch failure in December has not gone away yet. “To support implementation of such constellations projects, pivotal to a better understanding of the Environment changes at a global scale and to improving life on Earth, is at the core of our mission and we are particularly excited to be part of this adventure.” No response to Ukraine’s dissagrement “I would like to thank the Italian government, along with the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency ASI, to entrust Arianespace to deploy the state-of-the-art Earth Observation constellation IRIDE with Vega C,” said Stéphane Israël, CEO of Arianespace. This contract brings Vega-C’s launch backlog up to 15. The first launch will take place in late 2025 at the earliest, with the program’s first significant milestone set to be hit this month, per a press release. Other than Virgin Orbit, which just began launch operations out of the UK, Arianespace is the only European company with operational launchers. The European Space Agency was allowed to make the selection and went with Europe’s primary source for orbital launches, Arianespace. Vega-C, Arianespace’s light launch vehicle, will launch up to a trio of Earth observation satellites for the Italian government. ESA helps out Arianespace with more launches
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