Maiden Flight

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Low Earth Orbit Diamant Launch Area Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Maiden flight of the Zéphyr small launch vehicle.

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Zéphyr

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Configuration:

Small launch vehicle developed by French company Latitude, capable of delivering 100 kg to Low Earth orbit (LEO).

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    19.0 m
  • Diameter
    1.5 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    1.5 m
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
    315.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Zéphyr
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Zéphyr
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    100.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Latitude

Latitude

(LAT)

CEO: Aurélie Bressollette Founded: 2019 Successes: 0 Failures: 0 Pending: 1

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Latitude (formerly Venture Orbital Systems) is a French rocket manufacturing company developing the Zéphyr rocket.

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