{"id":722161,"date":"2022-04-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=722161"},"modified":"2022-04-26T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T13:30:00","slug":"vega-c-launcher-integration-begins-for-inaugural-flight-vv21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=722161","title":{"rendered":"Vega-C: Launcher integration begins for inaugural flight VV21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vega-C_launcher_integration_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Launcher integration for the inaugural flight of Vega-C began with the P120C solid-fuel first stage being delivered to the Vega Launch Zone (Zone de Lancement Vega, or ZLV) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Europe_s_Spaceport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europe&#8217;s Spaceport<\/a> in Kourou, French Guiana on 15 April 2022. P120C will also fly on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Ariane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ariane 6<\/a>, with two or four units serving as boosters depending on mission requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The interstage segment to join the P120C first stage with the Z40 second stage followed on the 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>For flight VV21, the principal payload will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/en\/earth-science\/lares-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LARES-2<\/a>, a scientific mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Also onboard will be six European research CubeSats.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Vega\/Vega-C_Launcher_integration_begins_for_inaugural_flight_VV21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vega-C: Launcher integration begins for inaugural flight VV21<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launcher integration for the inaugural flight of Vega-C began with the P120C solid-fuel first stage being delivered to the Vega Launch Zone (Zone de Lancement Vega, or ZLV) at Europe&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":722162,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722161","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/722162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}