Contents tagged with Vega rocket
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Ukrainian contract with Europe on supply of engines for Vega rockets extended till 2020
The Ukrainian National Industrial Portal announced on Monday, January 8 that the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, the Yuzhmash plant and the Italian company Avio SPA signed an agreement to continue the Vega project.
The contract for the delivery of sustainer engines for 4th-stage Vega RD-868P carrier rockets has been extended till 2020. Under the contract, Yuzhnoye Design Bureau and Yuzhmash enterprises will manufacture and supply twenty more RD-868P engines
The original contract was signed in …
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European Space Agency launches rocket with Ukrainian engine
A Vega rocket successfully lifted off from the equatorial Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
The launch was broadcast on the website of the French company Arianespace.
As President Petro Poroshenko announced on Facebook, one of the stages of the rocket engine was produced by the Ukrainian PA Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant named after A.M. Makarov.
“The RD-843 of the fourth stage of the rocket was developed by the state enterprise Yuzhnoye Design Office and manufactured by the state enterprise …
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Rocket powered by Ukrainian engine launches Google satellite
The Vega rocket, which has a Ukrainian engine, has successfully put five satellites into orbit, as was reported on the website of the European Space Agency. The rocket was launched at 00:43 Kyiv time from Kourou Cosmodrome, French Guiana, containing four SkySat terra bella satellites owned by Google. Moreover, it also put the first Peruvian satellite PeruSAT-1 into orbit.
The launch of the Vega rocket was the seventh in its history. On 23 June 2015, the European satellite Sentinel-2A, which …