Vega-C Will Fire Two Satellites Into a Sharp Sun-Sync Path

ELV Pad Braces as Vega-C Throats a Dual Payload

The Vega-C Sentinel-3C FLEX 2026 launch date locks in. French Guiana exhales. Countdown rhythms cut through pad metal. Two satellites will ride a needle into sun-synchronous light—one to police sea and soil, the other to stalk plant breath.

Avio’s Vega family flexes without fanfare. No room for error. Just ignition, climb, and delivery into a razor orbit.

No Room for Error on the Tropical Shelf

ELV Area 1 has seen rockets carve quiet arcs over open Atlantic. Vega-C continues that habit—unhurried, surgical. Weather whispers calm for now. The calendar says September. The coast says hurry up and wait.

Sun-synchronous orbit demands precision like a metronome. Any drift insults the mission. Copernicus does not forgive.

Two Missions, One Sharp Eye

Sentinel-3C will extend a trilogy of marine and land truth. Radar, altimeter, and camera stitching coastlines into code. FLEX rides alongside hunting fluorescence shy signals of photosynthesis otherwise invisible. Data will arrive without mercy and without delay.

Europe stitched this ambition via Copernicus—no slogans, just sensors. The rocket lifts. The ground watches. The atmosphere gets measured.