The European space agency Monday successfully completed its latest missile for the transport of relatively light loads is launched. The test flight, with a number of satellites onboard, was successfully conducted from French Guiana.
The latest missile in the arsenal of the European Space Agency received the name Vega, and was largely by Italians, designed and built. The Vega rocket is thirty metres long and has a diameter of only three metres. The rocket weighs 137 tons and makes use of three stages with solid fuel for its payload up to stow. For the finer work is a fourth stage is present in the main module, that uses liquid fuel with hydrazine. To the trajectory of the rocket to be able to adjust nitrogen is available.
The first flight of the 776 million dollar Vega VV01-rocket was Monday at 11 pm. The payload consisted of a satellite Lares is called a phenomenon of the general theory of relativity, will test. Also, AlmaSat-1, a observatiesatelliet, was a success with Vega in an orbit around the earth. In addition, seven small ‘picosatellieten’ sent by various European universities were developed.
The Vega rocket should be the other two launchers, of which the ESA is using to assist. The heaviest of the three, Ariane 5, could be 20 tonnes in an orbit around the earth; the Soyoez rocket can be anything less than 5 tonnes and carry. The Vega is designed to place small satellites in orbit around the earth. The height that the rocket can achieve varies from 300 to 1500 km, where the weight of the payload of 300 kilograms to 2.5 tonnes.
