The ESA's latest launch failed Tuesday, losing its payload of high-tech satellites.
, two satellites for Airbus' Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging constellation were carried by the medium-lift Vega C when it launched from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on Tuesday, December 20, 2022, at 8:47 pm EST .The P120C first stage of the rocket completed its task. However, the Zefiro 40, the second stage, apparently ran into some serious technical problems.
"Highly agile and reactive, they can be tasked up to 15 minutes before acquisition and send the images back to Earth within the following hour," Arianespace added. "Smaller, lighter, more agile, accurate, and reactive than the competition, they are the first of their class whose capacity will be fully commercially available."
The Vega C had completed one flight before Tuesday. In July 2022, the rocket successfully launched the 650-pound LARES-2 satellite from the Italian Space Agency and six other CubeSats.
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