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On August 27th at 22:11 CET, the Ariane 62 launcher was successfully launched from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. The launcher injected the MTG-I2 satellite into its transfer orbit, from which Telespazio, through the Fucino LEOP Control Centre and its Ground Station Network (GSN), will conduct the orbit-raising operations to place the satellite into its final geostationary orbit

🚀 Successful launch of Vega C – Mission #VV30 confirmed! With today’s mission, AVIO successfully delivered the Copernicus Sentinel-3C and FLEX satellites into orbit. Another milestone for the european space industry and a strong demonstration of collaboration and technological excellence. We at RohTech-DST GmbH are proud to have contributed to this milestone and to have supported the teams on their journey towards the second launch of AVIO as launch operators. 👏 Congratulations to everyone at AVIO and across the entire partner network who made this success possible. European Space Agency - ESA | European Commission | ESA Earth Observation | ESA Operations, Engineering & Space Safety | EUMETSAT | Thales Alenia Space | Centre National d'Études Spatiales We wish many more successful launches, clear telemetry, and all systems green! 🚀 🛰️🌍🛰️

🚀 Mission #VV30 success!   At 10:21 PM Kourou time, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, Avio successfully launched the Copernicus Sentinel-3C and FLEX satellites aboard a Vega C launcher.   The mission has been the second Vega C launch operated by #Avio.   🔗 Read the full press release on our website: https://lnkd.in/d7zMGvAb   European Space Agency - ESA | European Commission | ESA Earth Observation | ESA Operations, Engineering & Space Safety | EUMETSAT | Thales Alenia Space | Centre National d'Études Spatiales   #VegaC #FLEX #Sentinel3C #space #spaceiscloser

Ariane 6 flies its first GTO mission with MTG-I2! On 27 August 2026 at 17:11 local time (20:11 UTC), an Ariane 62 lifted off from ELA-4 at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The two-booster Ariane 6 configuration used a pair of P120C solid motors and a Vinci upper stage to send a single payload toward geostationary transfer orbit. The payload was MTG-I2, also known as Meteosat-14, the second imager in EUMETSAT’s Meteosat Third Generation system. Built by Thales Alenia Space for EUMETSAT with ESA, it carries a Flexible Combined Imager and a Lightning Imager. Arianespace said the satellite was injected into GTO and separated about 36 minutes after liftoff. It will later circularise into geostationary orbit at about 36,000 km. This was Ariane 6’s ninth flight, its sixth in the Ariane 62 configuration, Arianespace’s fourth launch of 2026, and the rocket’s first mission to GTO. Once operational, MTG-I2 will scan Europe and North Africa every 2.5 minutes, twice as often as the previous-generation rapid-scan service, with high-resolution channels down to about 500 metres. That cadence is meant to give forecasters earlier views of fast-developing storms, hail, damaging winds, flash floods, and wildfires. It joins Meteosat-12 and MTG-S1 to complete the first three-satellite MTG constellation in orbit. Follow The Space Road for more space news and the latest events across the industry. #Ariane6 #MTGI2 #Arianespace

Time for the last tango 💃 The final two of ESA's in total four Cluster spacecraft will end their journey. The two satellites, Samba and Tango, will burn up in our atmosphere. The satellites spent more than 20 years in space and were protected during that time by thermal insulation from us against the extreme temperatures in space. Live Blog from ESA 👉 https://lnkd.in/eUbpQ8sH Cluster was a constellation of four spacecraft investigating the interaction between the Sun and Earth’s magnetosphere in unparalleled detail. Officially, the Cluster mission ended in 2024 with the planned re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere of the first of the four satellites. The initial first four Cluster satellites were also the first ESA satellites to be equipped with thermal protection by Beyond Gravity. We have been active in the field of satellite thermal protection for 35 years. More about Cluster I (which was succeeded by the current Cluster II mission) 👉 https://lnkd.in/dk9_YYAd Image credit: European Space Agency - ESA / David Ducross

Successful launch of Copernicus Sentinel-3C! Vega-C flight VV30 lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou at 03:21 CEST on 15 September, carrying Sentinel-3C and ESA's Fluorescence Explorer, FLEX. Sentinel-3C separated about an hour after liftoff, FLEX an hour later, and controllers at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt confirmed a safe release. Both spacecraft are now in their launch and early orbit phase, with every subsystem checked before the instruments are switched on. Sentinel-3C will join Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B to carry one of Europe's longest continuous environmental records into the next decade: ocean colour, sea and land surface temperature, and sea surface height. 🔗 Missed the launch? Watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/e_3nSuKJ 🔗 Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/erwxfEdt #CopernicusEU #Sentinel3 #EarthObservation #ESA #EUSpace #VegaC #OceanMonitoring #ClimateData

🚀 🛰️ 🛰️ A night to remember at ESOC. Explore the highlights of ESA's dual launch operations. On 15 September, European Space Agency - ESA mission control pulled off an unusual operational challenge: guiding two different spacecraft through their critical first hours in orbit at the same time. ESA’s FLEX Earth Explorer and Copernicus Sentinel-3C launched together aboard the same Vega-C rocket. But at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), they were flown by two independent mission teams operating in parallel. That meant two flight control teams. Two flight dynamics teams. Two ground operations teams. Two sets of critical decisions – all working side by side and coordinating where their operations, resources and spacecraft trajectories intersected. For both teams, one of the most anticipated moments came with acquisition-of-signal (AOS), the spacecraft's first contact with Earth and ESA mission control at ESOC: 📡✅🛰️ Sentinel-3C: 4:32 CEST 📡✅🛰️ FLEX: 5:22 CEST   Coordinating two independent mission operations teams around a shared launcher timeline and countdown added a unique dimension to the campaign. “Teams at ESOC have launched other missions with multiple satellites, like Swarm, but this is the first time that the two missions have been prepared and designed to be launched with separate flight operations segments," said Elia Maestroni, Flight Operations Director for FLEX. From countdown to first signal acquisition, follow the story of a remarkable night at ESA mission control.⬇️ #ESA #Copernicus #Sentinel3C #FLEX #ESOC #SpaceOps #WhereMissionsComeAlive #avio #vegac #vv30 🎥ESA

🚀 Successful launch of MTG-I2 – congratulations to EUMETSAT, European Space Agency - ESA, Thales Alenia Space, ARIANESPACE, Centre National d'Études Spatiales, OHB SE and all partners involved! With the launch of Meteosat Third Generation Imager-2 (MTG-I2), another important milestone for Europe’s next-generation weather satellite constellation has been reached. TESAT is proud to have contributed to this ambitious programme with Modulators for the payload and through our Parts Agency. From 2011 to 2018, TESAT acted as the Coordinated Parts Procurement Agent (CPPA) for Meteosat Third Generation, procuring electronic components for the scientific instruments and satellite platforms of four MTG Imager satellites (MTG-I) and two Sounder satellites (MTG-S). The numbers underline the scale of this effort: 🔹 Around 1,800 different component types procured and tested 🔹 More than 200,000 individual components 🔹 Components supplied for 22 different equipment types and companies MTG-I2 will help deliver weather data with unprecedented detail. Its instruments will continuously monitor lightning and rapidly evolving weather systems — supporting European weather services, particularly in the nowcasting of severe weather events. 🌍⛈️ We are proud to have played our part in building the technological foundation for this important European mission. Congratulations to everyone involved – and all the best for MTG-I2’s mission! 🛰️ #TeamTESAT #Space #SpaceMatters Image of MTG-I2 © EUMETSAT

In just a few hours, Vega-C will give a ride to orbit to two new earth observation satellites, Sentinel-3C and Flex. They will provide vital information about climate, oceans, land, and plants' health. For the occasion, i will join the fantastic Katy Haswell in the commentary box to keep you company throughout the launch, so tag along for the ride tonight at 2.51 AM (Italian time) / 12.51 AM (UTC) on youtube at: https://lnkd.in/epXQMZMN See you later! #AVIO #ESA #VEGAC #VV30 #FLEX #SENTINEL3C

Live protection: Avio to release spacecraft to keep an eye on plant health and ocean conditions Nature An artist's analysis of the Vega-C payload fairing halves separating to expose the Sentinel-3C spacecraft on top of a Vespa adaptor, which houses the Fluorescence Explorer(FLEX)spacecraft. Graphic: ESA/P. Carril The penultimate Vega-C launch of the year is set up to fly from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana Monday night. The launch, bring the classification VV30, hosts 2 spacecraft onboard: the ocean- and atmosphere-monitoring Copernicus Sentinel-3C, handled by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites( EUMETSAT), and the plant health-monitoring Fluorescence Explorer(FLEX), handled by the European Space Agency(ESA)....