Return-to-flight mission VV25, Vega-C's first launch since its December 2022 failure, deployed the Copernicus Sentinel-1C C-band radar imaging satellite into sun-synchronous orbit from Kourou, restoring Europe's Earth-observation radar coverage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 8 Vega-C flights
- Date and time
- 5 December 2024, 21:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Vega-C
- Builder
- Avio
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2024-235
- Launches in 2024
- 242nd of 263
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