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May 7, 2013
Vega’s second flight from French Guiana marks the start-up of mission operations under Arianespace responsibility for this light-lift launcher. A trio of satellites, including Vega’s first commercial payload, are orbited during the successful mission.
April 18, 2013
Stéphane Israël is appointed Chairman & CEO of Arianespace, succeeding Jean-Yves Le Gall – who led the company since 2001 and earlier in April 2013 was named President of French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales).
March 18, 2013
Arianespace announces a three-satellite launch services contract for Intelsat, with the spacecraft to be orbited through 2017 by Ariane 5 vehicles from the Spaceport. The deal covers the 52nd, 53rd and 54th payloads that Arianespace will orbit for this leading provider of satellite services, continuing a nearly 33-year partnership.

Vega Flight VV02
Launch Kit: English (.pdf 739 KB) French (.pdf 739 KB) Cover art (.pdf 2.41 MB)	Launcher version:	Vega
	Payload(s):	Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCube-1
	Customer(s):	ESA for Proba-V; Astrium, on behalf of the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, for VNREDSat-1; Estonian universities in conjunction with the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the German Space Center (DLR) for ESTCube-1
	Mission(s):	Monitoring of global vegetation growth for Proba-V; Earth observation for VNREDSat-1; testing of electric solar wind sail technologies for ESTCube-1
	Payload prime contractor(s):	Qinetiq Space Belgium for Proba-V; Astrium for VNREDSat-1; Estonian universities for ESTCube-1

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