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PARIS, May 4. / Correspondent. ITAR-TASS Ivan Batirev /. Starting the European launcher Vega, which was supposed to start today with the launch site at the Guiana Space Center, has been postponed due to unfavorable weather conditions in the area of ??the launch pad. The countdown was stopped in less than half an hour before the start.
According to the company Arianespace, serving launches from Spaceport in Kourou, the reason for cancellation of the launch were strong gusts of wind at high altitude. Terms of repeated attempts at the moment are not called.
This launch was to be the second in the history of the operation of the missile. On its board are three research satellite: the European unit Proba-In / Proba-V /, Vietnamese VNREDSat-1 / VNREDSat-1 /, and ESTKyub-1 / ESTCube-1 / – the first in the history of Estonian satellite weighing just 1 , 3 kg, created by students of the University of Tartu.
Vega rocket, developed by the European Space Agency, is designed to deliver into orbit by a small mass of the spacecraft. Payload is 1.5 tons, the missile is capable of launching satellites into polar orbit at an altitude of 700 km. Creating a rocket was intsiirovano at the beginning of the 1990s by the Italian Space Agency and lasted 14 years. The total development cost of Vega, which also involved other EU countries amounted to about 710 million euros. Its first flight took place in February 2012.
planned that the new vehicle will be used primarily for the needs of researchers. In the line of media available ESA, she has added a heavy Ariane-5 / payload up to 21 tons / and placed at the disposal of European experts in 2011, Russia’s support of the middle class Soyuz-ST / payload of up to 9.2 tonnes /. Prior to 2016, ESA will run from the spaceport in Kourou five launches Vega.
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