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    • Title Fully assembled Vega VV01 on pad
    • Released 27/01/2012 5:03 pm
    • Copyright ESA - S. Corvaja, 2012
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      ESA’s new Vega rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad. Final preparations are in full swing for the rocket’s inaugural flight.

      Flight VV01 will lift off from the new Vega launch site at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying nine satellites into orbit: the LARES laser relativity satellite and ALMASat-1 from ASI with seven CubeSats from European Universities.


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