The Vega C was carrying two spacecraft for Airbus' Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging constellation.
is a more powerful version of the Vega, which first flew in 2012. The Vega C can haul about 5,070 pounds of payload to a 435-mile-high sun-synchronous orbit, compared to 3,300 pounds for the older rocket,The two spacecraft that were lost due to Tuesday's failure, Pléiades Neo 5 and Pléiades Neo 6, together weighed 4,359 pounds . The duo were headed to sun-synchronous orbit, where they would have completed Airbus' Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging constellation.
"The constellation is made of four identical satellites, built using the latest Airbus innovations and technological developments, and allows to image any point of the globe, several times per day, at 30-centimeter [12 inches] resolution," Arianespace wrote in a"Highly agile and reactive, they can be tasked up to 15 minutes before acquisition and send the images back to Earth within the following hour," Arianespace added.
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