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While trying to put the French and Spanish satellites into Earth orbit, the Vega booster rocket deviated from a certain trajectory.
An attempt by the French company Arianespace to launch French and Spanish satellites into Earth orbit using the Vega launch vehicle ended in failure on November 16. The Arianespace site reports on this.
The rocket was launched from a cosmodrome in French Guiana.
“Eight minutes after the start of the Vega Flight VV17 mission, after the first start of the Avum’s upper stage engine, a deviation of the trajectory was detected, which resulted in the termination of the flight,” the message says.
Arianespace specialists are investigating the reasons for the failure.
The first flight of the Vega launch vehicle took place in 2012, the VV17 mission was on the 17th. The Spanish satellite SEOSat-Ingenio was scheduled to be put into orbit to photograph the earth’s surface and the French TARANIS, intended for scientific research.
The RD-843 main engine block, which is used as part of the liquid propulsion system of the fourth stage of the Vega rocket, was developed by the Ukrainian state enterprise “Yuzhnoye” and is mass-produced by the Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant .
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