Vega launched Sentinel-2B for ESA's Copernicus program, joining twin satellite Sentinel-2A in sun-synchronous orbit to deliver multispectral land imagery of Earth every five days for monitoring floods, volcanoes and pollution.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 22 Vega flights
- Date and time
- 7 March 2017, 01:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Vega
- Builder
- Avio
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2017-013
- Launches in 2017
- 14th of 90
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