Vega launched Airbus's Pleiades Neo 3 Earth-observation satellite along with five rideshare smallsats, including Norway's Norsat-3 and four cubesats, from French Guiana. It was Vega's return-to-flight mission after the VV17 failure in November 2020.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 22 Vega flights
- Date and time
- 29 April 2021, 01:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Vega
- Builder
- Avio
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2021-034
- Launches in 2021
- 35th of 146
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