Vega Flight VV05
with Sentinel-2A
overview
- Launch vehicle
- Vega
- Launch date
- June 22, 2015
- Status
- Success
- Payload(s)
- Sentinel-2A
- Customer(s)
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- Prime contractor(s)
- Airbus Defence and Space
- Mission length
- 01:44:04
- Orbit
- Sun-Synchronous orbit
- Launch site
- Spaceport, French Guiana (Guiana Space Center)
mission update
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The fifth Vega success: Confirming Arianespace’s commitment to European space access, and to the Earth’s sustainable development
The fifth flight of Arianespace’s Vega continued the track record of success with this light-lift launcher, orbiting the Sentinel-2A satellite for Europe’s Copernicus Earth observation program.
