Vega Launch Service
SAB Launch Services
End-to-end launch service on Vega for small satellites, from launch procurement to post-flight support.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Payload capacity
- 2,200 kg
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Launch vehicle
- Vega
- Performance, SSO 700 km
- up to 1500 kg
- Performance, low earth orbit
- up to approx. 2200 kg
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Passenger accommodation
- SSMS dispenser, VESPA and VAMPIRE adapters
- European integration site
- SAB facility, Brno, Czech Republic
- Included
- launch procurement, integration, storage and transport, insurance, post-launch support
About
SAB Launch Services sells launch capacity on the European Vega launch vehicle to owners of small satellites. The service is sold end to end: procurement of the launch slot, support during spacecraft development and qualification, mechanical and electrical integration onto the launch vehicle structure, storage and shipment of the spacecraft to the launch site, and support through the launch campaign at the European Space Port in Kourou, French Guiana.
Vega places up to 1500 kg into a 700 km Sun-synchronous orbit and up to roughly 2200 kg into lower orbits. Payload integration within Europe is carried out at the SAB facility in Brno, Czech Republic; final integration and pre-flight operations take place at the launch site. Rideshare passengers fly on the SSMS dispenser; larger single or dual passengers use the VESPA and VAMPIRE adapters.
SAB Launch Services operates from Benevento, Italy and is part of the SAB group.
Documentation
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