{"id":549762,"date":"2018-11-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=fd0f1f05ca902efbc989aca4ab23f1f6"},"modified":"2018-11-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T13:00:00","slug":"vega-13-launches-13-successes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=549762","title":{"rendered":"Vega: 13 launches 13 successes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEurope’s Vega launch vehicle operating from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has a flawless record.\n<\/p>\n

\nVega serves a wide range of missions and payload configurations, responding to different market opportunities. It is the ideal launcher for most scientific and Earth observation missions, benchmarked to loft 1500 kg into a 700 km-altitude circular orbit at 90\u00b0 inclination.\n<\/p>\n

\nBased on this success a more powerful Vega, Vega-C, now in development is set to launch in mid-2019 offering greater performance at no additional cost.\n<\/p>\n

\nVega-C shares technology with Europe’s other new launcher Ariane 6. The P120C solid fuel motor will be used as the first stage for Vega-C and two or four will be used as strap-on boosters for Ariane 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nEurope’s Vega launch vehicle operating from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has a flawless record.\n<\/p>\n

\nVega serves a wide range of missions and payload configurations, responding to different market opportunities. It is the ideal launcher for most scientific and Earth observation missions, benchmarked to loft 1500 kg into a 700 km-altitude circular orbit at 90° inclination.\n<\/p>\n

\nBased on this success a more powerful Vega, Vega-C, now in development is set to launch in mid-2019 offering greater performance at no additional cost.\n<\/p>\n

\nVega-C shares technology with Europe’s other new launcher Ariane 6. The P120C solid fuel motor will be used as the first stage for Vega-C and two or four will be used as strap-on boosters for Ariane 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549763,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549762\/revisions\/549763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}