About KOMPSAT-7
KOMPSAT-7 is the follow-up model of KOMPSAT-3A whose mission is to provide high-resolution satellite images to satisfy South-Korea's governmental and institutional needs.
Orbital Attempt
#7,135
ASA Mission
#323
Pad Launch
#54
Location Launch
#329
Designator
2025-279
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.
Length
34.8 m
Diameter
3 m
Launch Mass
210 t
Thrust
2,974 kN
Capacity
3,300 kg
Capacity
2,230 kg
Launch Cost
$48M
Reusable
No
Maiden Flight
2022
Fastest Turnaround
2mo 27d
Total Launches
8
Successful
7
Failed
1
Consecutive Success
6
Maiden flight: Jul 13, 2022
Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America.
Founded
1980
Administrator
CEO: David Cavaillolès
Total Launches
328
Successful
313
Failed
15
Pending
51
Consecutive Success
16
ELA-1, now named Ensemble de Lancement Vega (short ELV), is a launch pad at the Centre Spatial Guyanais in French Guiana. It has been used to support launches of the Europa rocket, Ariane 1, Ariane 3, and is currently used to launch Vega rockets.
Total Launches
56
Orbital Attempts
56
Fastest Turnaround
1mo 25d
The Guiana Space Centre is a European spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana, a region of France in South America. Kourou is located at a latitude of 5°. In operation since 1968, it is a suitable location for a spaceport because of its equatorial location and open sea to the east.
Timezone
America/Cayenne
Local Launch Time
Dec 1, 2025, 2:21 PM
Total Launches
336
Total Landings
0
Coordinates
5.1690, -52.6903
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Dec 1, 2025, 5:21 PM
Second
1 update
Launch success.
SourceSpacecraft separation.
SourceLiftoff.
SourceTweaked T-0.
SourceOfficial Webcast by arianespace has started
SourceDelayed to December 1st.
SourceDelayed to November 30
SourceTargeting November 28 at 17:21 UTC.
SourceNET November 2025.
SourceVega-C Return To Flight now NET end of 2023.
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