Second flight of Europe's Vega-C (VV22) from Kourou, carrying the Airbus Pleiades Neo 5 and 6 imaging satellites. A nozzle throat erosion in the Zefiro-40 second stage caused a loss of thrust and the vehicle failed to reach orbit; both satellites were lost.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 8 Vega-C flights
- Date and time
- 21 December 2022, 01:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Vega-C
- Builder
- Avio
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 2022
- 182nd of 186