The launch of a rocket scheduled for Tuesday, September 3 in Guyana has been postponed until Wednesday “due to electrical problems with ground connections,” Arianespace announced.
The last liftoff of a Vega launcher, scheduled for Tuesday, September 3 from Kourou in French Guiana, has been postponed by 24 hours, Arianespace announced. “Due to electrical problems on ground connections,” the launch was “interrupted” three hours before the launch, Arianespace specified on the X network. Initially scheduled for Tuesday at 22:50 local time, the launch has been postponed by 24 hours.
Last Vega Mission
This is the last mission of the Italian Vega launcher, from the Avio firm, in service since 2012, before the handover to Vega C, an improved and more powerful version, grounded since 2022 following an accident.
This latest Vega mission, called VV24, will place its passenger, the Sentinel-2C satellite of the European Union’s Copernicus programme, in sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 780 km. It will be placed in orbit 57 minutes after lift-off.
As part of the Earth observation space programme, Europe’s area of excellence, the Sentinel-2C satellite will support a wide range of operational applications, including agriculture, water quality monitoring, management of natural disasters such as forest fires, earthquakes or floods, and detection of methane emissions.
