Sep 3, 2020
Vega rocket launching on return-to-flight mission tonight: Watch it live
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Arianespace’s Vega rocket is scheduled to fly tonight (Sept. 2) for the first time in more than a year.
The four-stage Vega last launched in July 2019, and that mission did not go well. The 98-foot-tall (30 meters) rocket’s second-stage motor suffered an anomaly, resulting in the loss of the Vega and its payload, the United Arab Emirates’ Falcon Eye 1 Earth-observation satellite.