Posted on 08/16/2021 7:31:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Arianespace will launch a new Earth observation satellite for Airbus Monday night (Aug. 16), along with four other tiny satellites and you can watch the liftoff live online.
An Arianespace Vega rocket, designated VV19, will launch the Pléiades Neo 4 satellites and a quartet of cubesats from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana in South America at 9:47 p.m. EDT (0147 Aug. 17 GMT). You can watch the launch live on this page on Space.com, courtesy of Arianespace, or directly via the company's YouTube. The webcast should begin about 20 minutes before liftoff.
The rocket will carry Pléiades Neo 4 — the second of four very high-resolution satellites to launch as part of Airbus’ Pléiades Neo Earth-observing satellite constellation — and four CubeSats, called BRO-4, SUNSTORM, LEDSAT and RADCUBE. All of the satellites, comprising a total payload of approximately 2268 lbs. (1,029 kilograms), will be placed into a sun-synchronous orbit, according to a statement from Arianespace.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Here's the U.S. Capitol building. The first image is hot linked from the preview on the Airbus site. For the second image, I zoomed in as far as I could go and took a screen cap. Unfortunately, ImgBB.com shrinks the image to about 2/3 of the original image size..
Huh...an AryanSpace Vegan rocket?
(Put on the calendar with a reminder to watch!)
Those are some incredible photos...like they were taken from a drone at a few hundred feet.
Just what we need - more space junk in orbit.
LOL!
I was reading an article at the site. Apparently, a previous launch was a failure because of faulty cable hookup...
“An investigation into the November 2020 Vega launch failure found the Avum upper stage tumbled out of control after separation because of improperly attached cables.”
Yikes...that’s gotta hurt.
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