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ArianespaceLaunch SuccessfulEarth ScienceVega · VENUS
Launched 2017-08-02 01:58:33 UTCAriane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Success
Reached Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Worldwide
48th
orbital launch attempt in 2017
Arianespace
8th
launch this year
Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)
2nd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
148 d
since the pad's previous launch
OptSat 3000 is an Earth imaging satellite built by Israel Aerospace Industries for the Italian military. It will be placed in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 600km. It will have a mission life of more than six years. Launched along with it is VENµS, Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite. This is a near polar sun-synchronous orbit microsatellite jointly built by the Israeli Space Agency and CNES. Besides the scientific mission of terrestrial environment monitoring, the satellite is also tasked with verification and validation of the Hall Effect thruster in space.
Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America.
Launches
328
Successful
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Upcoming
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scheduled
Height
29.9m
Diameter
3m
To low Earth orbit
1,500kg
Liftoff thrust
2,974kN
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