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Following the successful completion of Vega's maiden flight, the path is now clear towards launching two spacecraft belonging to the Sentinel Earth-observing constellation aboard the small rocket. A successful launch was all that stood in the way of validating a contract signed in December, 2011.
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14 February 2012
08:10 GMT |
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At 07:00 local time, the first Vega light-lift delivery system launched successfully from the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America. The rocket was commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA), which now finally has all payload mass segments covered.
Small satellites will from now on be launched aboa... |
13 February 2012
08:59 GMT |
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ESA officials announce that the first Vega rocket is now fully assembled at the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America. Its maiden flight will take place on Monday, February 13, and the booster will carry nine small satellite to Earth's orbit. I've tracked the progress this rocket has made over... |
11 February 2012
07:01 GMT |
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After completing a whole bunch of tests, officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) say that their newest delivery system, the Vega light-lift rocket, is finally ready for its maiden flight. Its first takeoff will occur on February 13, from the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America.
This rocket fills a... |
3 February 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the first Vega delivery system is now ready for launch. The rocket finished its final checkout at the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America, on Friday, January 13.
Its maiden flight – dubbed VV01 – is currently scheduled to occur on ... |
19 January 2012
20:01 GMT |
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In a meeting held on December 14 in Evry, France, representatives from Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a contract that binds the company to launch the Sentinel-2B and Sentinel-3B satellites aboard a Vega rocket. Takeoff will occur from the new Vega installations at the Kourou Spaceport, in Fren... |
19 December 2011
02:32 GMT |
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The Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America, is currently bustling with activity. European Space Agency (ESA) engineers have just delivered the first stage of the first Vega rocket to its launch pad, and have already started working on it.
Vega is the smallest delivery system ESA plans to use for launchin... |
11 November 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) are proud to announce the their efforts to start using the Vega rocket are progressing smoothly. Over the past few weeks, the organization managed to achieve a number of significant milestones for the project.
The most important of them was ESA's decision to start ... |
28 October 2011
10:26 GMT |
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On Thursday, September 29, the first components of the new Vega delivery system left Avio’s facility in Colleferro, Italy, where they were built. They were packaged neatly beforehand, as engineers prepared them for their long journey to South America.
These elements are bound for the Kourou Spaceport, which ... |
5 October 2011
04:08 GMT |
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After not one but two episodes of getting sold out within hours of becoming available, the Advent Vega tablet has once again become available for home delivery, though it is quite possible that another near-instant sell-out episode will occur.
Back in November, the ARM-based Advent Vega slate became available, on... |
4 December 2010
06:56 GMT |
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It seems that history decided to repeat itself, as a certain budget tablet managed to finally become available for purchase again only to sell out within hours. Again.Companies and consumers alike may be having trouble eliminating the last of their skepticism when it comes to tablets.Of course, promising results for... |
2 December 2010
05:07 GMT |
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It appears that, though manufacturers of electronics, in this case tablets, don't always provide all features that customers may want, other parties can succeed where they didn't, much in the way that MoDaCo just dealt with the Advent Vega.The Advent Vega tablet is one of the slates that actually came out ... |
27 November 2010
06:24 GMT |
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It seems that tablets are either very highly anticipated, or the Tegra 2 SoC is very appealing, or both, because the Advent Vega slate, one of the devices that actually got listed not long ago, has already sold out.Just a couple of days ago, Advent managed to make quite some noise on the mobile device market by actu... |
19 November 2010
07:52 GMT |
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With all the tablet announcements that have been cropping up, it was not unexpected for some of them to show up in stores, and Advent's Vega has done just that, even though it isn't, technically, on sale yet.While there are some tablets based on Intel's Pine Trail platform and loaded with the Microsof... |
17 November 2010
02:34 GMT |
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For the first time, astronomers using a French telescope have managed to identify the influence of a magnetic field on the light emanating from the star Vega, in the constellation Lyra, some 25 light-years away from Earth. This star is arguably the most studied in the sky, because it's very close to our planet, ... |
24 June 2009
04:58 GMT |
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As the axis of the Earth oscillates slowly during precession, the north pole of the planet points towards different places of the sky at different times. As such, the current North Star, Polaris, may not bear this label for long, in terms of astronomical timing. Common knowledge says that the North Star is the b... |
26 September 2008
09:39 GMT |
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Vettore Europeo Di Generazione Avanzata, or Vega for short, is an expendable launch system developed by the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. It is designed to carry satellites with masses between 300 and 2,000 kilograms into space and insert them into polar and low Earth orbits. It consists of thre... |
31 March 2008
06:38 GMT |
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Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat are the games that defined the arcade fighting genre and then redefined it when they moved from game halls and bars to the home computer. I confess to playing endless matches and tournaments with friends and family and to developing an unhealthy obsession for all things Vega. I'm... |
21 March 2008
07:41 GMT |
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Yesterday, the European Space Agency tested the prototype of a new type of rocket motor, named P80, which was designed to propel the future small Vega launcher. The test took place at the Guiana Space Center, in Kourou, at 15:35 GMT. After ignition, the measurements revealed that, in a duration of 111 seconds, the P8... |
5 December 2007
09:01 GMT |
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Today's news are all about next-gen games and next-gen consoles. With each passing generation, we tend to forget about the classics. But it seems that someone didn't forget about one BIG classic, found across arcades for over a decade: Street Fighter. No! Stop running around the living room, no 3D PS3 versi... |
13 April 2007
09:48 GMT |
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