In the skin of information. What to know about the Vega-C rocket launch failure

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On the night of Tuesday 20 to Wednesday 21 December, at the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana, for its first commercial flight, the new European light launcher Vega-C was lost in space, just a few minutes after takeoff , deviating from its trajectory.

The European Space Agency is to publish on Friday March 3, 2023 the conclusions of its investigation into the failure of the launch of this VEGA-C rocket last December.


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