Hi my Friends: AL VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., ESA’s Vega VV02 rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad, 22
April, 2013. Final preparations are in full swing for the rocket’s
inaugural flight.
Fully assembled Vega VV02 on pad
ESA’s Vega VV02 rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad, 22
April, 2013. Final preparations are in full swing for the rocket’s
flight.
Vega VV02 is the first of the five flights scheduled in ESA’s Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment – VERTA – programme, which aims to demonstrate the flexibility of the launch system. At a minimum rate of two launches per year, the programme will allow the smooth introduction of Vega for commercial exploitation.
VV02 will loft Proba-V, the first of four ESA missions, into space. Proba-V carries a reduced version of the Vegetation instrument currently flying on the Spot satellites to provide a daily overview of global vegetation growth.
This first VERTA flight will also demonstrate Vega's capability to launch multiple payloads. The second payload is the Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster Monitoring Satellite (VNREDSAT) built by Astrium for the Vietnamese government.
Vega VV02 is scheduled for liftoff from the Spaceport on 4 May, 2013 (GMT).
Vega VV02 is the first of the five flights scheduled in ESA’s Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment – VERTA – programme, which aims to demonstrate the flexibility of the launch system. At a minimum rate of two launches per year, the programme will allow the smooth introduction of Vega for commercial exploitation.
VV02 will loft Proba-V, the first of four ESA missions, into space. Proba-V carries a reduced version of the Vegetation instrument currently flying on the Spot satellites to provide a daily overview of global vegetation growth.
This first VERTA flight will also demonstrate Vega's capability to launch multiple payloads. The second payload is the Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster Monitoring Satellite (VNREDSAT) built by Astrium for the Vietnamese government.
Vega VV02 is scheduled for liftoff from the Spaceport on 4 May, 2013 (GMT).
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013
- Proba-V at a glance
- Overview
- Objectives
- About the instrument
- V for Vegetation
- Serving science
- Fitting the world in a box
- About the platform
- Joining ESA’s Proba family
- Boxing clever
- About the mission
- Made in Belgium
- On the ground
- Starting operations
- New technology
- Hitching a ride
- Tracking aircraft from orbit
- New space semiconductor
- Detecting radiation
- Fly by fibre
- About the launch
- Launcher
- Launch site
- Proba-V launch diary part 1
- Proba-V launch diary part 2
- Proba-V launch diary part 3
- Proba-V launch diary part 4
- What's next
- Proba-3
- Already flying
- Proba-1
- Proba-2
- Multimedia
- Proba-V images
- Proba images
- Proba Earth images
- Videos
25 April 2013
ESA’s Proba-V and its two companion satellites are sitting on top of
their Vega rocket on the launch pad, ready for a flight rescheduled to
the night of 3/4 May.
To carry out additional checks on the mobile gantry used at the Vega complex at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, ESA and Arianespace have decided to postpone flight VV02 for 24 hours.
To carry out additional checks on the mobile gantry used at the Vega complex at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, ESA and Arianespace have decided to postpone flight VV02 for 24 hours.
Last glimpse of Proba-V
On 15 April Proba-V was fixed to the Vespa secondary payload adapter, above Vietnam’s VNREDSat-1 Earth observation satellite and the ESTCube-1 Estonian student nanosatellite.
Two days later this entire stack was enclosed within Vega’s protective fairing. On 19 April the ‘upper composite’ was transported to the mobile launch tower, where it was hoisted up to the top platform.
The assembly was attached to Vega the following day, sitting above the reignitable upper stage that will steer the trio of satellites to their various orbits.
The mobile launch tower was retracted on Tuesday, leaving the completed rocket in place on the pad ready for a full checkout.
Upper composite installed atop Vega
This new, advanced version of the Vegetation camera is the latest in a series already in service on France’s full-sized Spot-4 and Spot-5 satellites, which have been observing Earth since 1998.
The minisatellite will provide data to the camera’s worldwide user community of scientists and service providers as soon as it is commissioned in orbit.
This second flight marks the start of the Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment programme, or VERTA, to demonstrate the flexibility and versatility of the vehicle. At a planned minimum of two launches per year, the programme will allow the smooth transition of Vega into commercial exploitation.
ESA
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