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.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 2,974 kN
- Height
- 34.8 m
- Diameter
- 3 m
- Launch mass
- 210 t
- Stages
- 4
- Launch cost
- $48M
- LEO capacity
- 3,300 kg
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- 2,230 kg
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
7
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
85.7%
6 of 7
Current success streak
5
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
Next: Vega-C | Sentinel-3C & FLEX — September 11, 2026
- Vega-C | Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) — Success
- Vega-C | KOMPSAT-7 — Success
- Vega-C | CO3D & MicroCarb — Success
- Vega-C | Biomass — Success
- Vega-C | Sentinel-1C — Success