Rocket
Vega-C
Avio S.p.A · Italy
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.
- Manufacturer
- Avio S.p.A
- First flight
- July 13, 2022
- Launches
- 8
- Successful
- 7
- Failed
- 1
- Success rate
- 87.5%
- Scheduled
- 21
- Height
- 34.8 m
- Diameter
- 3 m
- Liftoff mass
- 210 t
- Payload to low Earth orbit
- 3,300 kg
- Reusable
- no