Vega VV17 failed about eight minutes after liftoff when reversed wiring in the AVUM upper stage's thrust vector control caused a loss of trajectory control, destroying Spain's SEOSAT-Ingenio Earth-observation satellite and France's TARANIS lightning-science satellite.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 17th
- of 22 Vega flights
- Date and time
- 17 November 2020, 01:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Vega
- Builder
- Avio
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 2020
- 93rd of 114