Vega (rocket) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-06

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00:01:46 1 Development
00:01:55 1.1 Background
00:06:07 1.2 Programme launch
00:09:33 1.3 Into flight
00:12:15 1.4 Lead-up to first launch
00:13:06 2 Specifications
00:13:15 2.1 Stages
00:13:24 2.2 Payload
00:14:04 2.3 Three solid motor stages
00:14:36 2.3.1 P80
00:16:22 2.3.2 Zefiro 23
00:17:24 2.3.3 Zefiro 9
00:18:49 2.4 Attitude Vernier Upper Module, AVUM
00:19:46 3 Launch statistics
00:19:56 3.1 Rocket configurations
00:20:11 3.2 Launch outcomes
00:20:20 4 Launch history
00:21:22 4.1 2012
00:24:26 4.2 2013
00:24:48 4.3 2014



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Vega (Italian: Vettore Europeo di Generazione Avanzata, meaning "Advanced generation European carrier rocket"), is an expendable launch system in use by Arianespace jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency. Development began in 1998 and the first launch took place from the Guiana Space Centre on February 13, 2012. Arianespace has ordered launchers covering the period until at least the end of 2018.It is designed to launch small payloads — 300 to 2,500 kg satellites for scientific and Earth observation missions to polar and low Earth orbits. The reference Vega mission is a polar orbit bringing a spacecraft of 1,500 kilograms to an altitude of 700 kilometers.
The rocket, named after Vega, the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, is a single-body launcher (no strap-on boosters) with three solid rocket stages: the P80 first stage, the Zefiro 23 second stage, and the Zefiro 9 third stage. The upper module is a liquid rocket called AVUM. The improved version of the P80 stage, the P120C, will be used as the side boosters of the Ariane 6. Italy is the leading contributor to the Vega program (65%), followed by France (13%). Other participants include Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden.