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Vega Moves Closer to its First Liftoff


Zefiro-23 transfer to launch pad

Zefiro-23 transfer to launch pad

EU–(ENEWSPF)–15 December 2011. The integration of Vega’s first, second and third stages is now complete at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The new rocket is moving full speed ahead towards its maiden flight at the end of January. 

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The first Vega launch campaign began in November with the installation and testing inside the mobile gantry of the hundred-tonne solid-propellant first stage, the P80, and the Interstage-1/2 structure that links the first…

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