The tenth Vega rocket blasted off from 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.
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Europe’s Vega rocket lifted off from the ZLV Launch Site at the Guiana Space Center at 1:58:33 UTC on August 2, 2017 – heading off on a multi-orbit mission with a pair of Israeli-built satellites.
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Europe’s Vega rocket stands ready for a nighttime liftoff from the edge of the Amazon jungle Tuesday night carrying a pair of satellites built in Israel for operation by the Italian defence ministry and a French-Israeli cooperation.
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The encapsulated payload stack for the Vega VV10 mission is hoisted atop the assembled Vega rocket in preparation for an August 2017 liftoff.
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Europe’s Vega rocket – the smallest member in the Arianespace launcher family – completes stacking at the ZLV launch complex of the Guiana Space Center in preparation for an August 2017 liftoff
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The French-Israeli VENĀµS remote sensing and technology demonstration satellites and the OPTSAT-3000 image reconnaissance satellite – built in Israel & operated from Italy – under go final processing operations at the Guiana Space Center in preparation for a tandem ride atop Europe’s Vega rocket in August 2017.
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