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Interviews with personnel that worked on the last Vega rocket, flight VV24, with Sentinel-2C onboard.<\/p>\n
The third\u00a0Copernicus Sentinel-2\u00a0satellite launched from\u00a0Europe\u2019s Spaceport\u00a0in French Guiana aboard the final\u00a0Vega\u00a0rocket on 5 September at 03:50 CEST (4 September 22:50 local time).<\/p>\n
After a successful launch, Sentinel-2C separated from its Vega rocket at approximately 04:48 CEST. Around 14 minutes later, at 05:02 CEST, ESA\u2019s\u00a0ESOC mission operations centre\u00a0in Darmstadt, Germany, received the all-important first signals from the satellite indicating that it had safely arrived in orbit.<\/p>\n
Giovanna Manca, Vega launch complex operations manager for Avio, Fulvio Spaziani Brunella, Site manager for Avio, Claude Legrand, Quick-look telemetry display technical authority for Arianespace, Renato Lafranconi, Vega programme manager at ESA, and Francesca Diciolla, Environmental safety manager for Avio explain their roles in the Vega story.<\/p>\n
The last Vega flight ended three Sentinel 2 launches, the Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B satellites were launched on Vega marking a logical conclusion to Vega\u2019s stellar roster of satellites launched. Other missions launched by the small and nimble rocket over its lifetime are flagship ESA missions such as technology demonstrator Proba-V, wind monitoring satellite Aeolus, the reentry vehicle IXV and a forerunner to LISA that will measure gravitational waves in space.<\/p>\n
Vega ensured that Europe has a versatile, independent access to space, complementing the Ariane family of rockets to launch any satellite to any orbit \u2013 continuing with Vega-C and Ariane 6.<\/p>\n
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