Launch vehicle · Arianespace

Vega

RocketsSmall-lift

Imagery

B-33 Vega Turrets — B-33 Vega Turrets
B-33 Vega Turrets. Photo are listed in the NACA Wartime report L-463, October 1942, Test of a Large Spherical Turret and a modified Turret on a Typical Bomber Fuselage by Axel T. Mattson.
1942
NASA/LRC · NASA media (public domain)
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Overview

Europe's small-lift launcher with three solid stages and a liquid upper stage, for small scientific and Earth-observation satellites.

Components & hardware

Launch pads

Vega Launch Complex (SLV)

Knowledge connections

Operated byArianespace
Launched fromVega Launch Complex (SLV)
Replaced byVega-C
Basis forVega-C

Sources

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

ArianespaceArianespace SA
Ariane and Vega launch-vehicle families — user's manuals and mission data.
ESAEuropean Space Agency
European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.