Were a company like #IsarAerospace to succeed in launching its #Spectrum rocket 🚀 , it might go a long way to breaking the #monopoly 💰 #Arianespace has had on #government contracts https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/a-front-runner-emerges-in-the-european-small-launcher-race/

...one reason for this is the entrenched launch #monopoly in Europe 🇪🇺 , #Arianespace. The chief of Arianespace could not be more clear: He does not want any #competition for #VegaC and #Ariane6 https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/european-launch-chief-insists-there-be-no-competition-with-ariane-rockets/

RT @Arianespace
We are proud to announce at #SATShow a new contract signed with the Italian government for the deployment of the #IRIDE Earth observation constellation with 3 #VegaC launches to be scheduled from end of 2025 onwards!
Take a look at our Press release 👇
https://newsroom.arianespace.com/arianespace-awarded-new-vega-c-launches-for-the-iride-programme/

RT @Ajmeunier
Ce matin à l’@esa pour évoquer les conclusions de l’enquête sur l’échec de la mission #VV22 de #VegaC. #Lachroniquespatiale

RT @AschbacherJosef
An independent body has identified the cause of loss of #VV22. ESA will fully support Avio in the implementation of actions required to regain confidence in the #VegaC launcher system. Restoring Europe’s independent access to space is ESA’s top priority.

https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Loss_of_flight_VV22_Independent_Enquiry_Commission_announces_conclusions

Europa wird nach dem letzten Start der #Ariane5 im Juni 2023 vorerst keinen eigenen #Weltraum-Zugang mehr haben: Die neue Rakete #VegaC hatte im Dezember einen Fehlstart und bis die #Ariane6 kommt, dauert es noch: @pikarl @weltraum #Raumfahrt https://www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/raumfahrt-raketen-unabhaengiger-zugang-zum-weltraum-weltall-ariane-vega-esa-kleinraketen

Die Vega C hatte am 21. Dezember einen Fehlstart, weitere Starts wurden ausgesetzt. Europa besitzt nun, außer der betagten Ariane 5, keine eigene flugfähige Rakete mehr. Laut dem Generaldirektor der ESA, Josef Aschbacher, werden wir demnächst keinen eigenen Zugang zum Weltraum haben. Es bleibt die Hoffnung auf Kleinraketen und die Ariane 6:

➡️ https://www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/raumfahrt-raketen-unabhaengiger-zugang-zum-weltraum-weltall-ariane-vega-esa-kleinraketen

#ESA #VegaC #Fehlstart

Ariane 6 und Vega-C: ESA sieht Trägerraketen-Sektor in schwerer Krise

Europas Trägerraketen-Sektor ist nach einem Fehlstart der Vega-C und wegen der Verspätungen der Ariane 6 in einer schweren Krise. Die werde man aber meistern.

https://www.heise.de/news/Ariane-6-und-Vega-C-ESA-sieht-Traegerraketen-Sektor-in-schwerer-Krise-7467499.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#Ariane6 #ESA #Raumfahrt #Trägerrakete #VegaC

L'Europe se retrouve dans une "crise particulièrement grave" pour son accès à l'espace après la défaillance de la fusée #VegaC et les retards d' #Ariane6 , estime le président de la filière aérospatiale française https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/13678142-lacces-de-leurope-a-lespace-en-peril-suite-a-des-defaillances-et-des-retards.html

RT @arianespaceceo: Teams are getting ready for the first commercial flight of our brand new #VegaC! Onboard the European light launcher, two #PléiadesNeo satellites that will soon complete @AirbusSpace’s new constellation! #VV22

RT @arianespaceceo: Teams are getting ready for the first commercial flight of our brand new #VegaC! Onboard the European light launcher, two #PléiadesNeo satellites that will soon complete @AirbusSpace’s new constellation! #VV22

RT @arianespaceceo: Teams are getting ready for the first commercial flight of our brand new #VegaC! Onboard the European light launcher, two #PléiadesNeo satellites that will soon complete @AirbusSpace’s new constellation! #VV22

RT @RevesdEspace@twitter.activitypub.actor

🚀 Une commission indépendante va effectuer les investigations sur l’échec de #VegaC #VV22. On apprend aussi que la destruction du lanceur a été effectuée intentionnellement.
Détails 👇🏼 https://twitter.com/Arianespace/status/1605602664611401735?s=20&t=1PxK_xoZRcUv-nA3M3aIKA

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RevesdEspace/status/1605645951946919948

"Following the nominal ignition of the second stage’s (Zefiro 40) engine around 144 seconds after lift-off, a decrease in the pressure was observed leading to the premature end of the mission"

The two Pléiades Neo 5 & 6 Satellites were lost.

#VegaC #ArianeSpace #Airbus
https://www.arianespace.com/press-release/flight-vv22-failure-arianespace-and-esa-appoint-an-independent-inquiry-commission/

RT @arianespaceceo: Teams are getting ready for the first commercial flight of our brand new #VegaC! Onboard the European light launcher, two #PléiadesNeo satellites that will soon complete @AirbusSpace’s new constellation! #VV22

RT @esa@twitter.com

Early today, @Arianespace@twitter.com announced the failure of Flight #VV22.

@Arianespace@twitter.com and ESA immediately appointed an independent inquiry commission to analyse the reasons for the failure and define the conditions to allow the resumption of #VegaC flights.
👉 https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Flight_VV22_failure_Arianespace_and_ESA_appoint_an_independent_inquiry_commission

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/esa/status/1605598331450712064

🚀 Nouveau revers pour l'#Europe spatiale. Le nouveau lanceur #VegaC, qui devait effectuer son premier vol dans la nuit de mardi, s'est perdu quelques minutes après son décollage de #Kourou, en #Guyane

RT @AuerSusan@twitter.com

#VV22 #VegaC - moment of failure 📽️

Zoomed & cropped version of the official #Arianespace feed, showing the anomaly:

00:03 (T+03:27): Change in shape and brightness of the exhaust plume.
00:12 onwards: Loss of orientieren, launcher seems to be tumbling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CokbWoYm9w4

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AuerSusan/status/1605544543536828416

La fusée #VegaC qui devait réaliser cette nuit son premier vol commercial n’a pas réussi à placer en orbite deux satellites développés par Airbus. Un coup dur pour le lanceur européen qui était censé permettre de faire face à la concurrence internationale. https://www.liberation.fr/sciences/espace/un-vega-fail-pour-la-fusee-vega-c-20221221_I66F23DFURAVDFDHSIUFU6PL4I/

Sadly #VV22 #VegaC suffered an anomaly - see the link to the timestamp below, when the second stage powered by Zefiro 40 starts underpeforming and "swinging" with the gimballed thrust control (the stream continued for the next 10 minutes).

Zefiro 40 is a new engine introduced with the Vega C, but unlike the first stage motor, it's largely derived from the Zefiro 23 used in the first-gen Vega.

Cause of the failure will be investigated in coming weeks.

https://youtu.be/CokbWoYm9w4?t=2322

Triste de l’échec de #vegac de cette nuit, j’espère qu’on en saura plus vite. Bon courage aux équipes.
Une leçon: le P120 a bien fonctionné, on a attend bcp de lui pour #Ariane6.