Carried ESA's Aeolus satellite, the first spacecraft designed to measure Earth's wind profiles globally using a Doppler lidar instrument, from Kourou to sun-synchronous orbit. It was Vega's 12th consecutive successful flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 22 Vega flights
- Date and time
- 22 August 2018, 21:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Vega
- Builder
- Avio
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2018-066
- Launches in 2018
- 66th of 114
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: Aeolus
View satellites in Space Atlas