VENUS (Venµs), OPSAT-3000 (SHALOM) , SAMSON 1/2/3 - Vega (VV10) - Kourou ZLV - 02.08.2017 01:58 UTC

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5th & FINAL cut-off of AVUM. The craft is now, according to @Arianespace, on its way to a graveyard orbit. #VV10 #OPTSAT3000 #VENUS #Israel








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http://www.arianespace.com/mission-update/vv10-success/
ЦитироватьVega | August 1, 2017

Perfect 10: the lightweight Vega orbits OPTSAT-3000 and Venµs on a milestone success



For the second time this year – and the 10th overall since entering service in 2012 – Vega has successfully launched a payload from the Spaceport, with this lightweight vehicle's latest mission delivering the OPTSAT-3000 and Venµs Earth observation satellites to Sun-synchronous orbits.

Lifting off from the Spaceport's SLV launch complex at precisely 10:58:33 p.m. French Guiana time on August 1, Vega lofted its multi-passenger payload during a flight sequence lasting 1 hour and 37 minutes.
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Delivering OPTSAT-3000 for Italy
During the initial phase of the mission – designated Flight VV10 in Arianespace's launcher family numbering system – Vega was powered by its three solid propellant stages, which was followed by multiple burns of the bi-propellant upper stage, before separate deployments of the two spacecraft.

The first passenger released by Vega, OPTSAT-3000, is an Earth observation satellite for the Italian Ministry of Defence. It was built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) based on inter-governmental Italian-Israeli agreements, and once operational, will enable national defense entities to acquire and use high-resolution imagery from any part of the globe.

The OPTSAT-3000 system was supplied by Telespazio as prime contractor, which has responsibility for the entire system; while OHB Italia was responsible for the launch services and related engineering support.

Venµs: an Israeli-French collaboration
The second passenger orbited on Flight VV10 – Venµs, also produced by Israel Aerospace Industries — is an Earth observation and exploratory mission for the Israel Space Agency (ISA) and France's CNES space agency at the benefit of Israel's Ministry of Science & Technology.

Venµs (an acronym for "Vegetation and Environment on a New Micro Satellite") will study the evolution of Earth's vegetation during its scientific mission, while the satellite's technological mission will provide in-flight qualification of the Israeli Electrical Propulsion System, based on Hall-Effect thrusters. CNES is in charge of the multi-spectral camera, its image programming and processing, as well as the distributing ground station; while the camera's development was performed for CNES by Elbit Electro-Optic Systems Elop Ltd.

An eye on the future
In addition to bringing Vega's tally of successes to double-digits, Flight VV10 also marked its first launch under a new operational organization between Arianespace and the vehicle's production prime contractor, Avio.

Under the new arrangement aimed at enhancing competitiveness, Avio now assumes responsibility for preparing the launcher until liftoff; while Arianespace maintains full responsibility for customer relations, as well as operations for the final countdown and launch decision.

Reinforcing Arianespace's continued focus on innovation, Flight VV10's Vega also utilized a new "out of autoclave" payload fairing that was developed by RUAG for the next-generation Vega C launcher.

Flight VV10 continues Arianespace's busy schedule in 2017, in which eight launches were performed during the year's first seven months (two with the lightweight Vega; two with the medium-lift Soyuz; and four using the heavy-lift Ariane 5).

The company's next mission is scheduled for August 31, when Ariane 5 will lift off from French Guiana to geostationary transfer orbit with a pair of relay satellites: Intelsat 37e and BSAT-4a.
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http://www.arianespace.com/press-release/flight-vv10-for-its-10th-successful-launch-in-a-row-vega-orbits-two-earth-observation-satellites-optsat-3000-and-ven%c2%b5s-for-italy-israel-and-france/
ЦитироватьVega | August 2, 2017

Flight VV10: For its 10th successful launch in a row, Vega orbits two Earth observation satellites – OPTSAT-3000 and Venµs for Italy, Israel and France



Arianespace has successfully launched two Earth observation satellites for civil and military applications: OPTSAT-3000 for the Italian Ministry of Defence; and Venµs, a mission of the Israel Space Agency (ISA) – a government body sponsored by the country's Ministry of Science & Technology – and the French CNES space agency (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales).

The launch took place on Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 10:58:33 pm (local time in Kourou) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
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This was Arianespace's eighth mission of the year and the second using Vega in 2017. It marked the 10th successful Vega launch in a row since this light-lift vehicle started its career at the Guiana Space Center in 2012. Additionally, today's mission reaffirmed Vega's excellence and versatility.

Vega goes 10 for 10 as Arianespace's light-lift launcher; Vega C is in the starting blocks
As a highly versatile launcher, Vega has now logged 10 launches, all successful, since starting operation in 2012 at the Guiana Space Center. Over the past five years of launch activity, Vega has orbited a total of 25 satellites for 19 customers, both government and commercial.

In June 2017, Arianespace announced the first two contracts for the Vega C launcher. Scheduled to make its first flight in 2019, Vega C will offer higher performance than the current version in terms of payload weight and usable volume. It will be able to handle an even wider range of missions (from nanosatellites to large optical and radar observation satellites), and will further enhance the launch service competitiveness.

Vega and Vega C now have an order book totaling nine launches, with one-third of them for European governments and two-thirds for commercial customers in export markets.

This mission also marks Arianespace's continued focus on innovation, heralding the new payload fairings to be used on its upcoming Ariane 6 and Vega C launchers. As with the most recent Ariane 5 mission (on June 28, 2017), the new "out of autoclave" fairing, built by RUAG, protected the satellite passengers on Flight VV10.

On this VV10 mission, Arianespace also anticipated the evolution for how Vega launch campaigns are carried out, based on the framework agreement defining the operational organization for Ariane 6 and Vega C, which was approved by ESA, CNES, ArianeGroup and Avio. Industrial prime contractor Avio now assumes responsibility for preparing the launcher until its liftoff (H0), while Arianespace maintains full responsibility for customer relations, as well as operations for the final countdown and the launch decision. This new operational organization is to allow more integrated operation of teams at the Guiana Space Center for enhanced competitiveness.
Vega at a glance
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  • First launched in 2012, from CSG
  • 25 satellites launched to date: 12 for Earth observation,11 for technology applications and 2 for science missions
  • Launches performed for 19 customers from around the world (Europe, North and South America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa)
  • All 10 missions successful, including seven at the service of Earth observation
  • 9,836 kg. cumulated payload weight sent into orbit
  • Seven Vega launches in the order book, along with two Vega C launches.

Two Earth observation satellites for Italy, Israel and France
OPTSAT-3000 is the fourth satellite launched by Arianespace for the Italian Ministry of Defence since 2001. This Earth observation satellite will enable the acquisition and use of high-resolution images from any part of the globe. The OPTSAT-3000 system will be interoperable with Italy's second-generation COSMO-SkyMed radar satellites. This will give the Italian Ministry of Defence access to state-of-the-art technologies, and ensure maximum operational capabilities with the combined optical and radar data offered by these two systems.

Telespazio is responsible for the entire system, with OHB Italia in charge of launch services and related engineering support.

Venµs is an Earth and vegetation observation and exploratory mission, designed to monitor the effects of climate change. This mission is part of a joint space program between the Israel Space Agency (ISA), a government body sponsored by the country's Ministry of Science and Technology, and the French CNES space agency (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales).

In fact, the full name of the satellite summarizes its mission: "Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New MicroSatellite." By analyzing and comparing images of the same area at different times, researchers can evaluate soil conditions, understand the development of vegetation, and detect the outbreak of a disease or the contamination of a field.
Arianespace: launch services well-suited to Earth observation systems
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  • The two satellites for this mission are the 62nd and 63rd Earth observation satellites launched by Arianespace's Ariane, Soyuz and Vega launchers.
  • 10% of the satellites launched by Arianespace – and 25% of the launches in its order book –involve Earth observation
Arianespace is a key player at the service of European institutions (both agencies and governments) for their Earth observation and meteorology programs.
Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd (IAI) built both OPTSAT-3000 and Venµs, which are the third and fourth satellites from this manufacturer to be launched by Arianespace, following Amos 1 (in May 1996) and Amos 2 (in December 2003, via Arianespace's Starsem affiliate). IAI is the largest aerospace and defense company in Israel.

Shortly after the announcement of the orbital injection of these two satellites, Arianespace Chief Executive Officer Stéphane Israël said: "With this second Vega launch of 2017, and its 10th success in a row since being introduced at the Guiana Space Center, Arianespace is very proud to support two major Earth observation programs for Italy, Israel and France. We are very honored by this mark of trust from the Italian Ministry of Defence for which this launch – via our direct customer OHB Italia and on behalf of Telespazio – marks the fourth by Arianespace since 2001. Concerning Venµs, thanks go to the Israel's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), which entrusted us with this symbolic mission at the service of the environment, conducted by the Israel Space Agency (ASI) and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). Equally, 'bravo' to Israel Aerospace Industries, which built both satellites: OPTSAT-3000 and Venµs.

"My congratulations also go to our industrial prime contractor Avio, for Vega's excellence and availability. And of course, my thanks to the European Space Agency and national agencies, especially the Italian Space Agency, for supporting the Vega program. Thanks as well to CNES/CSG, along with the companies and all staff at the launch base, who continue to support us as we go from success to success. Lastly, 'bravo' to everyone at Arianespace for this eighth successful launch of the year, and the 265th by the family of Arianespace launchers at CSG."
The OPTSAT-3000 passenger is a very-high-resolution optical Earth observation satellite that will provide daytime images of the entire planet. It was placed into Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 450 km. With a mass of 368 kg. at launch, OPTSAT-3000 offers a design life of 7 years.
The Venµs payload is a high-resolution, high-frequency Earth observation satellite, which will produce high spatial and temporal resolution images. It is equipped with a camera built by Elbit Electro-Optic Systems Elop Ltd for CNES. The satellite was placed into a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 720 km. It weighed 264 kg. at launch and offers a design life of 4.5 years.
Both OPTSAT-3000 and Venµs were built by Israel Aerospace Industries in Tel Aviv, Israel, using an IMPS Bus platform.

About Arianespace
Arianespace uses space to make life better on Earth by providing launch services for all types of satellites into all orbits. It has orbited more than 550 satellites since 1980, using its family of three launchers, Ariane, Soyuz and Vega, from launch sites in French Guiana (South America) and Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Arianespace is headquartered in Evry, near Paris, and has a technical facility at the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, plus local offices in Washington, D.C., Tokyo and Singapore. Arianespace is a subsidiary of ArianeGroup, which holds 74% of its share capital, with the balance held by 17 other shareholders from the European launcher industry.
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http://www.avio.com/en/press-release/vega-tenth-consecutive-successful-mission/
Цитировать02 AUG 2017
Vega: tenth consecutive successful mission


Kourou (French Guiana), 2 August 2017 – The European space launcher Vega has successfully concluded its tenth mission, the second of 2017, by correctly placing into orbit OPSAT-300 and Venus, two Earth observation satellites. This event consolidates Vega's excellent reliability in the sector of space launchers; in fact, it is the first time that a new launcher has performed its first 10 debut launches without any anomalies.

Liftoff from the Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana took place on 1 August at 22:58 local time (03:58 on 2 August in Italy). This is the fourth launch in the last 10 months, a clear demonstration of the Vega launcher's reliability and flexibility.
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"10 missions, 10 successes: Vega has achieved a level of performance and reliability that is unmatched," remarked Giulio Ranzo, CEO of Avio. "We are proud of this result, the first achieved by Vega following the Stock Exchange listing, which attests not only to the great reliability of our products but also to the effectiveness of our collaboration with Arianespace and with our European industrial partners".

"We have been successful in our efforts to develop new technologies and increasingly performant launchers to satisfy the increasingly sophisticated needs of our customers," Ranzo added. "In Colleferro (Rome) we have just completed the first booster case for the P120, the largest monolithic solid-propellant motor made entirely of carbon fibre that will equip Vega C and Ariane 6, the new European launchers that will fly in 2019 and 2020″.

"The successes achieved by the Vega launcher are driven by the capacity to innovate, do research and identify competitive and reliable solutions for the launcher market", Roberto Battiston said, President of the Italian Space Agency. "Satellite infrastructures are growing and will be increasingly pervasive: it has been paramount to develop a family of European launchers able to ensure access to space and the competitiveness of the whole space value chain. In this context, Avio's role and capabilities represent a certainty",  Battiston concluded.

"We are very proud to share this tenth consecutive success of the light-weight vehicle Vega from the Guiana Space Center alongside our industrial prime contractor Avio" said Stéphane Israël, CEO of Arianespace. "Our partnership is key to the success of Vega, which, launch after launch, stands as the benchmark launcher of its class and whose excellence and versatility allow us to offer our customers increasingly competitive launch solutions."

OPSAT-3000 is an Italian-Israeli satellite for Earth observation resulting from the cooperation between Telespazio and IAI (Israel Aerospace Industries). Venus is a French-Israeli satellite for Earth observation based on a cooperative venture between CNES (the French Space Agency) and ISA (the Israel Space Agency).

Both satellites, precisely placed into orbit by Vega, will transmit data and images for the Earth observation and the assessment of the impacts of climate change on vegetation.

Vega

Vega is a European launcher that was designed, developed and built in Italy by Avio, through its subsidiary ELV (30% owned by ASI, the Italian Space Agency). It belongs to a new generation of vehicles designed to transfer satellites into low Earth orbit (between 300 and 1,500 km from Earth) for institutional and scientific purposes, in order to observe the Earth and monitor the environment. 65% of the funding for Vega came from Italy and it was built in the Avio production plant in Colleferro, near Rome. It complements the family of European launchers and it is capable of placing into orbit satellites with masses of up to 2,000 kg.
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ЦитироватьVega Rocket Successfully Lifts Israeli-built Earth-Watching Satellites for Science & Reconnaissance
August 2, 2017

The tenth Vega rocket blasted off fr om French Guiana Tuesday night, lighting up the edge of the Amazon before swinging to the north to dispatch a pair of Israeli-built satellites into two different orbits via a complex multi-burn mission by the launcher's upper stage.

The 30-meter tall Vega leapt off its launch pad at precisely 1:58:33 UTC on Wednesday, riding on pillars of fire and smoke as it shot up under the power of its massive solid-fueled first stage. Aiming for a polar orbit, Vega turned straight north and fired its three solid-fueled stages in close succession before handing off to the AVUM upper stage that first fired for six minutes to reach a preliminary orbit to begin a deliberate orbital ballet to dispatch its payloads – requiring a total of five firings of AVUM's main engine.
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Photo: Arianespace Webcast

Hauling a total payload mass of 990 Kilograms, AVUM re-started after coasting for a third of an orbit to inject the first passenger into a 450-Kilometer orbit. OPTSAT-3000 was sent on its way 42 minutes into the flight, starting a mission operated by the Italian Defence Ministry to collect high-resolution reconnaissance imagery.


Vegas dual-payload stack – Photo: Arianespace/ESA/CNES/Optique Video du CSG

With the first satellite on its way, AVUM shed the Vespa adapter to reveal the second passenger of this mission, the French-Israeli VENµS that required AVUM to make two more firings to reach the craft's desired 720-Kilometer orbit for separation 97 minutes after liftoff. AVUM was then to re-light a fifth time to remove itself from orbit.

Wednesday's mission was the tenth flight of the Vega rocket since its inauguration in 2012 as the light-lifter in Arianespace's line of launch vehicles that also includes the 'Europeanized' version of the Russian Soyuz to tackle medium-lift missions while the Ariane 5 workhorse handles the heavy-lifting. It was the eighth Arianespace mission in 2017 – two Vegas, two Soyuz flights to Geostationary Transfer Orbit and four dual-payload deliveries by Ariane 5.

Wednesday's flight, in a sense, was an Ariane-like delivery for Vega – featuring a stack of two satellites with a larger passenger riding in the upper slot and the smaller of the two in the lower berth underneath an adapter. The 368kg OPTSAT-3000 took the upper position on Wednesday, standing 3.35 meters tall, while the 264kg VENµS was only revealed after OPTSAT departed the vehicle when the top portion of the Vespa adapter separated.


Photo: Arianespace/ESA/CNES/Optique Video du CSG

OPTSAT-3000 was ordered by the Italian Ministry of Defence in a deal contingent on Israel's purchase of Italian training aircraft. The satellite was manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries based on the export version of its OPSAT-3000 satellite platform, coupled with a high-resolution imaging payload known as Jupiter that features a 70-centimeter telescope and panchromatic & multi-band detector units.

Black-and-white imagery delivered by the satellite will have a ground resolution of 0.5 meters while color imagery will reach a resolution of two meters and even better with PAN-sharpening possible because Jupiter can capture panchromatic and multi-band imagery at the same time, covering a ground swath of 15 Kilometers.

The $182 million OPTSAT-3000 has a span of 4.6 meters once its two solar arrays are deployed and the craft is outfitted with an agile pointing system that permits the satellite to capture images at off-nadir angles up to 30 degrees and quickly slew from one target to the next, allowing several ground sites to be imaged with a single pass.

>> OPTSAT-3000 Satellite Overview

The smaller of the two satellites, VENµS, sets out on a two-part mission starting with a two-and-a-half-year science mission using a Super-Spectral Imager followed by a technology demonstration mission involving a Hall Effect Thruster for a major orbit change and drag-free flight exercise.


Photo: IAI

VENµS had a long road to the launch pad and is the result of a collaboration between the French and Israeli Space Agencies with the Israeli side tasked with the manufacture of the satellite & its instruments as well as the mission control-related ground segment while the French side contributed technical assistance and will handle the science-related part of the mission.

The VENµS Super Spectral Camera (VSSC) captures images in 12 spectral bands, featuring a 25-centimeter telescope feeding four focal plane assemblies that host a dozen line detectors to collect imagery across a 27.5-Kilometer ground swath at a ground resolution of 5 meters. Superspectral imagery collected by the satellite will be used for ecosystem monitoring, capturing imagery of 50 sites that are representative of the world's inland and coastal ecosystems, providing information on vegetation cover and health and helping in the development for new automated extraction methods to turn satellite data into biosystem parameters.


Image: CNES

Data from the mission will also be useful for tracing the water and carbon cycles and further the current understand of the interface between land masses and the atmosphere.

The second part of the VENµS mission will be focused on IHET, the Israeli Hall Effect Thruster – a 15-millinewton ion thruster developed by Israeli company Rafael for use on satellites requiring frequent orbital changes or drag compensation. Two IHET units are installed on VENµS and will be used to reduce the craft's orbit from 720 to 410 Kilometers over the course of around half a year followed by one year of drag compensation at the lower altitude to accumulate well over 1,000 operating hours on the thrusters. VSSC will be able to deliver an image resolution of three meters, continuing limited imaging operations once the satellite enters the lower Sun Synchronous Orbit.

>> VENµS Satellite Overview


Photo: Arianespace Webcast

Vega's nighttime liftoff was preceded by a nine-hour long countdown operation that ran very smoothly, in large part due to Vega's overall design philosophy opting for a simple solid-fueled launch vehicle – avoiding overly complex systems to establish a low-cost system for launching commercial and government satellites into Low Earth Orbit. Simplicity is achieved by using a stack of three solid-fueled stages topped by a liquid-fueled Attitude and Vernier Module which gives the vehicle precise injection and multi-orbit mission capability.

Overall, the Vega launcher stands 29.9 meters tall and weighs 137,000 Kilograms at liftoff, not using any large liquid-fueled stages which eliminates any dynamic operations such as propellant loading from the rocket's countdown.

>> Vega Launch Vehicle


Photo: Arianespace Webcast

Checkouts of the rocket's Multi Function Unit came up clean and weather was predicted to be favorable, allowing teams to roll back the Mobile Service Gantry three hours before the instantaneous launch opportunity. Vega finished pre-launch checks and was placed in its launch configuration at T-50 minutes to prepare for the Automated Countdown Sequence picking up at T-4 minutes to put in motion the final preparatory steps for liftoff – notably the transfer to internal power, the final check of the guidance system and the handover of control to the rocket's computers.

Ignition of the P80 first stage marked the point of no return for Vega, catapulting itself off the launch pad with a thrust of 280 metric-ton-force, creating a thrust to weight ratio in excess of two and making for a fast departure. Vega lit up the night skies over the Guiana Space Center, ascending vertically for a handful of seconds before pitching and rolling onto a departure course to the north, heading out over the Atlantic to reach a high-inclination orbit for the delivery of its payloads.


Photo: Arianespace Webcast

Burning 820 Kilograms of solid propellant every second, P80 accelerated Vega beyond the speed of sound within half a minute, cutting through the dense layers of the atmosphere. Thrust on the P80 began tailing off one minute and 50 seconds into the flight, having consumed 88 metric tons of propellant to accelerate the vehicle to a speed of 1.7 Kilometers per second.

The 11.2-meter long first stage dropped away one minute and 56 seconds after liftoff at an altitude of 59 Kilometers and the 122 metric-ton-force Zefiro-23 second stage immediately fired up on its 77-second burn to continue boosting the vehicle out of the atmosphere. Burning through 24 metric tons of propellant, the 8.4-meter long Z23 accelerated Vega to a speed of 3.8 Kilometers per second, separating from the vehicle three minutes and 40 seconds after liftoff when Vega had reached an altitude of over 200 Kilometers.

The two lower stages exhibited a slight overperformance which was corrected via energy management on the third stage and trajectory adjustments by the AVUM upper stage that was able to shorten its first burn by several seconds as a result.


Vega P80 & Z23 performed slightly better than predicted – Image: Arianespace Webcast

The third stage, designated Zefiro-9, ignited after a short delay, four minutes and three seconds into the flight followed just five seconds later by the separation of the protective payload fairing. This was Vega's first flight with a fairing using out-of-autoclave carbon composite technology which was recently inaugurated on the Ariane 5, permitting a significant reduction in production time and cost for the fairing halves.

Generating a peak thrust of 32 metric ton-force, the third stage fired for two minutes and raised Vega's speed to nearly match orbital velocity. Burnout on the 4.1-meter third stage was followed by a brief passive coast to ensure any residual thrust had tailed off before shedding the spent stage. At separation, six minutes and 42 seconds into the flight, Vega had reached an altitude of 235 Kilometers, traveling nearly 7.6 Kilometers per second.


Image: Arianespace

Taking over control of the flight, AVUM was first tasked with lifting the stack into orbit – starting out with a stabilization of its orientation and a propellant settling maneuver before lighting up the 250 Kilogram-force Main Engine Assembly (RD-869). The burn ran just over six minutes and corrected for injection errors by the lower stages, parking the stack in a slightly elliptical orbit peaking at 455 Kilometers in altitude.

AVUM then coasted for 26.5 minutes to climb towards the high point of the orbit for a one-minute and 25-second burn of the MEA to inject the stack into a circular orbit at 450 Kilometers, inclined 97 degrees. This set the stage for the spring-loaded separation of the OPTSAT-3000 satellite just shy of T+43 minutes, heading off on a mission of at least six years filling a reconnaissance data gap for the Italian defence authorities.


Image: Arianespace Webcast

With the first payload on its way, AVUM conducted a re-orientation before jettisoning the Vespa adapter 52 minutes after launch to reveal the VENµS satellite which planned to start out in a higher orbit than OPTSAT – requiring another pair of engine burns by AVUM. The upper stage re-lit 53 minutes after launch and fired for just under one minute to lift the high point of the orbit to 720 Kilometers ahead of half a lap of coasting to set up for the circularization – a 64-second burn completed one hour and 35 minutes into the mission.

VENµS sailed off one hour and 37 minutes into the flight, entering its planned orbit at 720 Kilometers wh ere it will spend close to three years – first going through commissioning and orbital fine-tuning as prerequisites for the 2.5-year science mission with the super spectral camera. The mission will then make its 310-Kilometer altitude reduction and continue in a drag compensation mode before the craft is brought to a purposeful re-entry.


Image: Arianespace Webcast

For AVUM, the day was not over once both satellites were on their way as one more burn was left for the upper stage to remove itself from orbit – targeting a retrograde deorbit burn of 78 seconds ten minutes after VENµS separation.

Wednesday's launch marked Vega's tenth successful orbital delivery and will be followed by one more Vega mission later this year with an Earth observation satellite operated by Morocco. For Arianespace, the next mission on the manifest is an Ariane 5, currently targeting liftoff on September 1st with the Intelsat 37e and BSat-4 communications satellites headed to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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