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Flight VV10: Vega to launch Earth Observation Satellites for Italy, France and Israel


For its eighth launch of the year, and the 10th Vega mission since this launcher began its career at the Guiana Space Center in 2012, Arianespace will orbit OPTSAT-3000 and Venµs – two Earth observation satellites for civil and military applications.
This marks the seventh Earth observation mission for Vega, a light launcher now in full commercial operation, whose versatility has been largely proven during its nine previous missions – all successful.

Vega Flight VV10

• Launch vehicle: Vega

• Launch date: August 1, 2017

• Payload(s): OPTSAT-3000, Venus

• Customer(s): OHB Italia, Israel Ministry of Science and Technology

• Prime contractor(s): Telespazio, Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd (IAI)

• Launch site: Spaceport, French Guiana (Guiana Space Center)

• Orbit: Sun-Synchronous orbit

more info in launch kit en: http://www.arianespace.com/wp-content/u ... kit-EN.pdf
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OPTSAT-3000


The satellite features:

• High resolution,

• High-precision geolocation,

• High-quality images,

• Reduced weight, which allows a wide range of launch options,

• High agility, thanks to the satellite’s reduced weight and small size. This means low inertia, which in turn allows the acquisition of a large number of images,

• Design life exceeding seven years.

Venus


The satellite has a twofold objective:

• Scientific: Frequent revisits (up to two days) of scientific sites spread worldwide for the study and evolution of vegetation, and for environmental purposes.

• Technological: In-flight qualification of the Israeli Electrical Propulsion System.

more info
http://www.arianespace.com/mission/vega-flight-vv10/
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http://www.esa.int/ESA

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Flight VV10: For its 10th successful launch in a row, Vega orbits two Earth observation satellites – OPTSAT-3000 and Venµs for Italy, Israel and France
The launch took place on Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 10:58:33 pm (local time in Kourou) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

The OPTSAT-3000 passenger is a very-high-resolution optical Earth observation satellite that will provide daytime images of the entire planet. It was placed into Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 450 km. With a mass of 368 kg. at launch, OPTSAT-3000 offers a design life of 7 years.

The Venµs payload is a high-resolution, high-frequency Earth observation satellite, which will produce high spatial and temporal resolution images. It is equipped with a camera built by Elbit Electro-Optic Systems Elop Ltd for CNES. The satellite was placed into a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 720 km. It weighed 264 kg. at launch and offers a design life of 4.5 years.

Both OPTSAT-3000 and Venµs were built by Israel Aerospace Industries in Tel Aviv, Israel, using an IMPS Bus platform.
more info
http://www.arianespace.com/press-releas ... nd-france/