VESPA Dual-Passenger Mission
SAB Launch Services
Flight on the VESPA adapter, which carries a main satellite plus a secondary passenger or a cluster of auxiliary payloads.
Technical specifications
- Accommodation
- VESPA / VESPA-C adapter
- Upper position
- main satellite, approx. 1000 kg on Vega
- Lower position
- secondary passenger or auxiliary cluster, approx. 600 kg
- VESPA-C
- dual passengers above 400 kg, larger Vega-C volume
- Compatible vehicles
- Vega, Vega-C
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
About
VESPA — the Vega Secondary Payload Adapter — carries a main satellite in the upper position and a secondary passenger, or a cluster of auxiliary payloads, in the lower position. On Vega it accommodates a main satellite of about 1000 kg together with roughly 600 kg below; VESPA-C exploits the larger Vega-C fairing for dual passengers above 400 kg each.
SAB Launch Services sells flights in both positions and provides the full service around them: interface definition, integration onto the adapter, storage and shipment, insurance, launch campaign support at Kourou and post-launch activities.
VESPA suits an operator whose spacecraft is too large for a CubeSat dispenser slot but who does not need a dedicated launch.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.