Avio S.p.A. is an Italian company operating in the aerospace sector with its head office in Colleferro near Rome, Italy. Founded in 1908, it is present in Italy and abroad with different commercial offices and 10 production sites.
Type: Commercial
Successful Launch / Total Launch: 0 / 0
Number of launch attempt this year: 0
Launchers: Vega
Spacecraft: -
Vega-C is a single-body rocket nearly 35 m high with that weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad. As with Vega, its main elements are three solid-propellant stages, an upper stage powered by a reignitable liquid-propellant engine and a payload fairing. Vega-C's P120C first stage replaces Vega’s smaller P80 to provide a significant increase in thrust at liftoff. It is also used as boosters (2 or 4) for the Ariane 6 rocket.
Successful Launch / Total Launch : 5 / 6
Height: 34.8 m
Diameter: 3.0 m
Liftoff Mass: 210 t
Liftoff Thrust: 2974 kN
Cost: 48000000 €
LEO / GTO capacity: 3300 kg / - kg
Apogee: - km
1st flight: 2022-07-13
Joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to investigate the interaction between Earth’s protective shield – the magnetosphere – and the supersonic solar wind.
Type: Astrophysics
Orbit: Elliptical Orbit (Elliptical)
Window: 2026-04-08 NTY
Location: Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Launches from the pad this year / Total launches from the pad: 0 / 54
Total launches from the location: 331
Timezone: America/Cayenne