Vega – the smallest in Europe’s line of launch vehicle – lit up the night skies over the edge of the Amazon on Monday, thundering off to lift the newest member in the Copernicus constellation to orbit, taking the pulse of an ever-changing planet with a series of active observation posts circling the Earth.
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Europe’s Vega rocket blasted off from the ZLV launch site at the Guiana Space Center at 1:49 UTC on March 7, 2017, racing into the night skies over the space base to lift the Sentinel-2B satellite into orbit for the European Copernicus Program tasked with the collection of complete, timely and accurate Earth observation parameters.
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Vega – the smallest in Europe’s line of launch vehicles – lit up the night skies over the edge of the Amazon on Monday, thundering off to lift the newest member in the Copernicus constellation to orbit, taking the pulse of an ever-changing planet with a series of active observation posts circling the Earth.
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Europe’s Copernicus Earth Observation Constellation will welcome its newest member Monday night when the Sentinel-2B satellite blasts off from the Guiana Space Center atop a Vega Rocket, blazing into orbit to cut in half the revisit time for multispectral images.
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The Sentinel-2B satellite, encapsulated in its protective payload fairing, is hoisted up to take its position atop the ninth Vega rocket to take flight from the Guiana Space Center, supporting Europe’s Copernicus Earth Observation Program.
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The ninth Vega rocket to blast off from the Guiana Space Center undergoes assembly at the ZLV launch complex in preparation for liftoff with the Sentinel-2B satellite, set to join Europe’s Copernicus satellite fleet tasked with capturing a comprehensive set of Earth observation parameters for a variety of applications.
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Europe’s Sentinel-2B satellite completes pre-launch processing tasks at the Guiana Space Center, being fueled for flight, taking its spot atop the Vega payload adapter and being encapsulated in the protective payload fairing in preparation to be installed atop its ride to space.
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Videos: Vega VV09 Mission Overview
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Finally lifting off on its fourth launch attempt, a Russian-built Soyuz rocket successfully carried Europe’s Sentinel-1B satellite into orbit on Monday ahead of a four-hour secondary mission to deliver the French MicroSCOPE satellite and three University CubeSats.
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A Russian-built Soyuz rocket topped by a Fregat Upper Stage lifted off from French Guiana on Monday on a long mission to deliver Europe’s Sentinel-1B environmental monitoring satellite, the French MicroSCOPE fundamental physics experiment satellite, and three small CubeSats from European universities into custom orbits .
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Finally lifting off on its fourth launch attempt, a Russian-built Soyuz rocket successfully carried Europe’s Sentinel-1B satellite into orbit on Monday ahead of a four-hour secondary mission to deliver the French MicroSCOPE satellite and three University CubeSats.
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The launch of Europe’s Sentinel-1B satellite atop a Russian Soyuz rocket was scrubbed on Sunday in the last hour of the countdown due to a technical issue with the 46-meter tall rocket.
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The launch of Europe’s Sentinel-1B satellite atop a Russian-built Soyuz rocket was delayed on Friday due to poor weather at the ELS Launch Site of the Guiana Space Center.
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A Soyuz rocket stands tall at its equatorial launch site in French Guiana for liftoff on Friday with the Sentinel-1B radar satellite to join Europe’s Copernicus satellite constellation dedicated to Earth observation.
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The Sentinel-1B satellite is readied for liftoff atop a Soyuz rocket from the Guiana Space Center to join the Copernicus Satellite Fleet dedicated to operational Earth Observations.
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