Pierwsza Vega, pierwszy polski satelita 13.02.2012 o 10:00 z Kourou wystrzelono pierwszy egzemplarz RN Vega, która wyniosła w T+52' 11" na orbitę o parametrach: hp=1450 km, ha=1450 km, i=69,5°satelitę LARES, a w T+70' 36" na orbitę o parametrach: hp=350 km, ha=1450 km, i=69,5° satelity ALMASat 1, e-st@r, Goliat, MaSat-1, PW-Sat, Robusta, XaTcobeo i UniCubeSat-GG. PW-Sat to pierwszy zbudowany w Polsce sztuczny satelita Ziemi.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n120201.htm#03Vega Launch on Mission VV01 - First Flight - February 13, 2012Vega VV01 – relacja ze startu BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 12 LUTEGO 2012
https://kosmonauta.net/2012/02/2012-02-13-vega/Proving high-tech rocket systems, Vega soars to spaceBY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: February 13, 2012
Vega's first launch occurred a few minutes after sunrise. Credit: ESA/S. Corvaja"A new member of the launcher family has been born," said Jean-Jacques Dordain, director-general of the European Space Agency. "Today is the first day of a new operational life, which doubtless will be a long and successful one. Vega is a launcher that's necessary for us at ESA. We've already reserved six launches." (...)
The genesis of Vega comes from Italian operations of the U.S. Scout launch vehicle from the San Marco platform, an ocean-based launch site that was positioned off the coast of Kenya for missions from the 1960s through the 1980s.
After winning initial support of ESA member states in 1998, Italy funded 58 percent of Vega's development and spearheaded the development of new technologies for the launcher, including oversight of all four stages through Avio. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/vega/vv01/120213launch/https://spaceflightnow.com/vega/vv01/120210lares/index.htmlEurope’s Italian-led Vega Rocket Succeeds in Its Debutby Peter B. de Selding — February 13, 2012
KOUROU, French Guiana — Europe’s Italian-led Vega small-satellite launcher was successfully launched on its inaugural flight Feb. 13, placing a 400-kilogram laser-reflector satellite into low Earth orbit and then dropping eight microsatellites into a different position.
Nine years in development and costing some 710 million euros ($930 million), the Vega rocket will complement the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the medium-class Russian Soyuz vehicle at Europe’s Guiana Space Center here.
Vega is designed to place a 1,500-kilogram satellite in a 700-kilometer low Earth orbit. It is a market that several years ago appeared to be the near-exclusive preserve of former Russian and Soviet ballistic missiles that were converted into space-launch vehicles.
That was then. Following years of determined Italian support — Italy is paying about 60 percent of Vega’s costs — Vega now appears ready to harvest a captive market of European Space Agency (ESA) and other European government Earth observation and science satellites. (...)
https://spacenews.com/europes-italian-led-vega-rocket-succeeds-its-debut/https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/First_Vega_rocket_assembled_on_launch_padEnabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega/ESA_s_Vega_rocket_marks_ten_years_with_countdown_to_more_powerful_successorhttps://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/v-w-x-y-z/vegaMaSat 1
https://eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/content/-/article/masat-1https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/02/europes-new-launch-vehicle-vega-debut-trip-space/LARES
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/lares.htmALMASat 1
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/almasat-1.htme-st@r
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/e-star.htmGoliat
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/goliat.htmMaSat 1 (MO 72, Magyar-OSCAR 72)
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/masat-1.htmPW-Sat 1
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/pw-sat-1.htmROBUSTA 1
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/robusta.htmUniCubeSat-GG
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/unicubesat-gg.htmXaTcobeo
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/xatcobeo.htmLARES-A&H/SS
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/lares-ahss.htmw PW-Sat 1
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=269.msg115516#msg115516https://twitter.com/ESA_History/status/1757354495716012094#OTD 13 February 2012, launch of @vega_sts VV01 on its inaugural flight from
@EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana with a payload of 9 satellites
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