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Historical mission record
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Mission
Sentinel-2C is the third satellite in the Sentinel-2 constellation, which is designed to provide high-resolution optical imagery for land services.
- Launch vehicle
- Vega
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Destination orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit
- Launch pad
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)
- Provider
- Arianespace
- Programs
- Copernicus
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Vega
Vega is the smallest lifter in the current Arianespace family.
- Height
- 29.9 m
- Diameter
- 3.025 m
- Stages
- 4
- Recorded launches
- 22
- First flight
- 2012-02-13
Recorded timing
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SCHEDULED MOMENT
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Flight timeline
Planned sequence, not live telemetry. Times are relative to the launch target.
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:01:56
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:03:39
Stage 3 Separation
- T+00:03:56
Fairing Separation
- T+00:05:52
Kick Stage Separation
- T+00:07:36
Kick Stage Burn
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- T+00:54:36
Kick Stage Burn
- T+00:57:32
Payload Separation
- T+01:09:00
AOS
- T+01:54:52
Kick Stage Burn
Launch site & orbit
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
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