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Vol VV27 | CO3D / MicroCarb | Vega C I Arianespace

Le vendredi 25 juillet 2025 à 23h03 heure locale (02h03 UTC, 04h03 CEST le 26 juillet 2025), Arianespace a lancé avec succès les satellites CO3D d'Airbus Defence and Space et le satellite MicroCarb du...

Volo VV27 | CO3D / MicroCarb | Vega C I Arianespace

Venerdì 25 luglio 2025, alle 23:03 ora locale (02:03 UTC, 04:03 CEST del 26 luglio 2025), Arianespace ha lanciato con successo i satelliti CO3D di Airbus Defence and Space e il satellite MicroCarb del...

Lancement de Vega-C avec les satellites CO3D et MicroCarb (VV27) 🚀

Le lanceur européen Vega-C a décollé dans la nuit du 25 au 26 juillet 2025 du Centre spatial guyanais pour placer en orbite les satellites d’observation français CO3D et MicroCarb. Revivez le live @ar...

Vega C Flight VV27

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Watch live: Vega-C to launch CO3D and MicroCarb

Working on the fairing for Vega-C flight VV27 The four small satellites in the CO3D constellation (an abbreviation of the French 'Constellation Optique en 3D') are set to map the globe in three dimensions from low Earth orbit, to serve public and private sector needs. MicroCarb is designed to map …

CO3D & MicroCarb

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Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Earth Science

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

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.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • July 26, 2025, 3:46 a.m.

All spacecraft separated.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 26, 2025, 5:49 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 6, 2024, 8:34 a.m.

NET June.



Nosu • Feb. 7, 2025, 9:44 p.m.

Adding MicroCarb as secondary payload with CO3D


Vega-C

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Configuration:

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.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    4
  • Length
    34.8 m
  • Diameter
    3.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    3.3 m
  • Launch Mass
    210.0 T
  • Thrust
    2974.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Vega-C
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Vega-C
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $48000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    3300.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    2230.0 kg

Avio S.p.A

Avio S.p.A

(Avio)

CEO: Giulio Ranzo Founded: 1908 Successes: 0 Failures: 0 Pending: 24

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Avio S.p.A. is an Italian company operating in the aerospace sector with its head office in Colleferro near Rome, Italy. Founded in 1908, it is present in Italy and abroad with different commercial offices and 10 production sites.

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