Vega's second flight (VV02) and first commercial mission delivered ESA's Proba-V vegetation-monitoring satellite along with Vietnam's VNREDSat-1A and Estonia's first satellite, ESTCube-1, to sun-synchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 354 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 22 Vega flights
- Date and time
- 7 May 2013, 02:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Vega
- Builder
- Avio
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2013-021
- Launches in 2013
- 22nd of 81
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: ESTCube-1
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