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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEGuiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Mission
CO3D is a CNES-Airbus Defence & Space constellation of four small satellites designed to map the globe in 3D from low Earth to serve public and private sector needs. Microcarb is a small satellite designed to map sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2)—the most important greenhouse gas — on a global scale.
- Launch vehicle
- Vega-C
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Destination orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit
- Launch pad
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)
- Provider
- Arianespace
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Vega-C
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.
- Height
- 34.8 m
- Diameter
- 3 m
- Stages
- 4
- Recorded launches
- 6
- First flight
- 2022-07-13
Recorded timing
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Flight timeline
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- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:02:23
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:04:27
Stage 3 Separation
- T+00:04:39
Fairing Separation
- T+00:07:15
Kick Stage Separation
- T+00:08:19
Kick Stage Burn
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- T+00:51:33
Kick Stage Burn
- T+00:57:17
Payload Separation
- T+01:00:15
Kick Stage Burn
- T+01:36:43
Kick Stage Burn
- T+01:41:12
Payload Separation
- T+01:51:00
Kick Stage Burn
Launch site & orbit
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
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