Success
Sentinel-1C
Earth Science
Arianespace(ASA)CommercialVega-C
SSOorbit
Sentinel-1C carries an advanced radar technology to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface. It is a replacement satellite to complete the Sentinel-1 duo after Sentinel-1B suffered a technical anomaly.
Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Replay
Flight Timeline
- T+00:00Ignition
- T+00:04Liftoff
- T+02:22SES
- T+02:22Stage 2 Separation
- T+04:32Stage 3 Separation
- T+04:39Stage 3 Ignition
- T+05:04Fairing Separation
- T+07:08Stage 3 Separation
- T+08:16Kick Stage Ignition
- T+16:45Kick Stage Cut-off
- T+56:10Kick Stage Burn
- T+1:40:28Kick Stage Burn
- T+1:43:50Payload Separation
- T+1:50:53Kick Stage Burn
Mission details
Copernicus is the European Union's Earth observation programme coordinated and managed for the European Commission by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU Member States. It aims at achieving a global, continuous, autonomous, high quality, wide range Earth observation capacity. Providing accurate, timely and easily accessible information to, among other things, improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure civil security.
Apr 3, 2014 — ongoing
Orbital Attempt
#6,828
ASA Mission
#317
Pad Launch
#51
Location Launch
#323
Designator
2024-235
Launch Window
NET
Dec 5, 2024, 9:20 PM
Precision
Second
Schedule Changes
1 update
Vega-C Specs
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
LEO Capacity
3,300 kg
SSO Capacity
2,230 kg
Launch Cost
$48M
Reusable
No
Maiden Flight
2022
Fastest Turnaround
2mo 27d
Total Launches
7
Successful
6
Failed
1
Consecutive Success
5
Maiden flight: Jul 13, 2022
Social Flight Log
- Dec 6, 2024, 1:32 AM
Launch success
Source - Dec 5, 2024, 9:20 PM
Liftoff!
Source - Dec 5, 2024, 8:42 PM
Official Webcast by arianespace has started
Source - Dec 4, 2024, 7:37 PM
Delayed by a day due to a mechanical issue preventing the withdrawal of the mobile gantry
Source - Nov 30, 2024, 4:31 AM
Tweaked T-0.
Source - Nov 28, 2024, 7:50 PM
Rescheduled for December 4.
Source - Nov 27, 2024, 11:36 AM
Delayed due to launch vehicle problem, new date TBD.
Source - Oct 10, 2024, 11:21 AM
NET December 3.
Source - Sep 18, 2024, 11:08 AM
NET Late November.
Source - Jan 11, 2024, 3:08 PM
NET November 15
Source - Sep 11, 2023, 12:24 PM
TBD 2024
Source - Jul 9, 2023, 3:03 AM
Moving to Q1 2024 pending investigations into Vega-C 2nd stage motor re-qualification test firing failure.
Source - Apr 10, 2022, 7:10 AM
Adding launch
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Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)
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
55
Orbital Attempts
55
Fastest Turnaround
1mo 25d
Arianespace
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
326
Successful
311
Failed
15
Pending
29
Consecutive Success
14
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
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 5, 2024, 6:20 PM
Total Launches
333
Total Landings
0
Coordinates
5.1690, -52.6903