Arianespace and AVIO / ELV presented in Rome the second “VEGA Users’ Day” . Stéphane Israël, President and CEO Arianespace, Giulio Ranzo, CEO of Avio, and Pierluigi Pirrelli, CEO of ELV, gather all the customers and partners of the European light launcher to take stock of its use and its commercial and institutional success. One of the objectives is the preparation of the future with VEGA C, which will begin to be marketed by Arianespace at the end of 2016, in view of a first launch in 2019.
the interest in Vega, ESA program funded by Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden, of which ELV is the prime contractor and which is marketed by Arianespace who employs him in addition to Ariane 5 and Soyuz, there. Launched for the first time in 2012, Vega already has 6 all successful missions in which he could show his versatility: from the mission in low sun-synchronous orbit for Sentinel- 2A of the European system Copernicus, the ballistic mission (IXV) ending with the Lisa Pathfinder mission last November that Vega scored for the end of the development phase and the beginning of its commercial use. The light launcher has assets of a backlog of 10 launches (including satellites of Terra Bella, renamed Google Skybox; Gokturk for Turkey; Sentinel-3B; Aeolus for Esa; Ceres for France; 1 and Falcon Eye 2 for the United Arab Emirates; PeruSAT and SKYSAT for Peru), a third carried out on behalf of the European institutions and two thirds for foreign customers.
And with the arrival of Vega C – first flight scheduled in 2019 – the potential market is expected to widen. “The Vega C – explained the CEO of aviation Giulio Ranzo – present a significant improvement in performance and load capacity of the satellites (mass and useful volume) than the current version. We will pass from 1.5 to 2.3 tons of capacity. ” “Vega C – said Ranzo – will be able to bring in space satellites of the Cosmo-SkyMed. Bringing Italian satellites in space with an Italian pitcher I think it is a source of pride for our country. ” “We walk side by side with Avio – said the number one Arianespace – to market, from the end of the year, the Vega C even more competitive and suited to market needs.”
and if the September launch of the satellites Terra Bella (and there is an option for 2 more) already a successful business, the presence of the two days of the Roman OneWeb – which aims to create a constellation of satellites that work in an integrated way to bring broadband internet via satellite on every point of the planet and bring matters into orbit 672 only over the next two years – “we are particularly pleased,” said Ranzo which still has to organize an event like this Roman also in Silicon Valley to learn all about the Vega to the uS market.
in order to increasingly meet the needs of the market, Avio is developing a device (SSMS – Small Spacecraft Mission System), which allows you to split the Vega space for the load so you can carry more than a few nanosatellites also satellite and launch at the right time each load. “During today’s meeting – concluded Ranzo – I caused our stakeholders asking them: What do you need? Knowing what is needed you can really get better and better product “. And in this area the innovation word is really central to go to not only meet the market needs, but anticipate them.
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