Past launch
Launched successfully
CO3D & MicroCarb
Vega-C, flown by Arianespace
Launches / Vega-C
Vega-C, flown by Arianespace
This was Arianespace's 3rd launch of 2025, and its 320th in all.
Counting every operator, it was the 160th orbital launch attempt anywhere in 2025, and the second from Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV).
Arianespace
CO3D is a CNES-Airbus Defence & Space constellation of four small satellites designed to map the globe in 3D from low Earth to serve public and private sector needs. Microcarb is a small satellite designed to map sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2)—the most important greenhouse gas — on a global scale.
Vega-C is a single-body rocket nearly 35 m high with that weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad. As with Vega, its main elements are three solid-propellant stages, an upper stage powered by a reignitable liquid-propellant engine and a payload fairing. Vega-C's P120C first stage replaces Vega’s smaller P80 to provide a significant increase in thrust at liftoff. It is also used as boosters (2 or 4) for the Ariane 6 rocket.
Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America.
328 launches so far, 313 of them successful. The last 16 in a row went to plan.
It went up from Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) at Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana.
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