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January 11, 2021 Everything you always wanted to know about Chinese air power (but were afraid to ask) – Interview with Andreas Rupprecht Few have written more on the subject of Chinese air power than Andreas Rupprecht. We grilled him on the hottest topics in that most dynamic of subjects, Chinese warplanes. China appears to be producing new designs at a greater pace than other nations, is that true, and if so, why? If they indeed are “producing new designs at a greater pace than other nations” (which I’m not sure is true) it it is because they have both the political will, the mili...

The commission set up by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace to investigate the Vega launch failure in November has released its findings. Arianespace CEO Stéphane Israël said in a Dec. 17 press release that the findings may allow a return to flight for the Vega by the end of the first quarter of 2021.  The commission reported that the failure was caused by wrong routing and connection of the control lanes of the electro-mechanical actuators of the Attitude Vernier Upper Module (AVUM) upper stage Thrust Vector Control (TVC) system. This inverted steering commands caused traje...

Loss of Vega Flight VV17: Independent Enquiry Commission announces conclusions On Tuesday, November 17, Arianespace announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission, which was carrying two payloads, SEOSAT-Ingenio, an Earth-science observation satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of Spain's Center for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), and TARANIS for France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES). The first three stages functioned nominally until the ignition of the AVUM upper stage, eight minutes after liftoff. At that time, a degraded trajectory was d...

Vega takes off on its 17th flight on Nov. 16, 2020. (Credit: Arianespace webcast) PARIS, 17 December 2020 — On Tuesday, November 17, Arianespace announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission, which was carrying two payloads, SEOSAT-Ingenio, an Earth-science observation satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of Spain’s Center for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), and TARANIS for France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES). The first three stages functioned nominally until the ignition of the AVUM upper stage, eight minutes after liftoff. At that time, a d...