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Commercial success?

Do we have any information on the commercial success of this rocket? Development (1998-2012) was heavily government subsidized, and many of the 1-3 launches per year since the first launch in 2012 appear to be either subsidized, or the result of national rulz in various European countries that favor, by law, flying on European rockets.

What is the success of this rocket in the rapidly-evolving economic market for space transport services? Cheers. N2e (talk) 14:31, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There aren't any state rules that favour European rockets with many government payloads flying on launchers from other countries and vice versa, similarly there aren't any state rules requiring US companies launches in the US other than for military/intelligence payloads. As to attracting commercial payloads there have been launches for US, Turkish, Israeli and Thai companies among others though the rocket is primarily designed to launch payloads to orbits that are significant for scientific observation missions not communication sattelities. WatcherZero (talk) 17:16, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No mention of Vespa (Vega Secondary Payload Adapter)

No mention of Vespa (Vega Secondary Payload Adapter) as shown in [1] - Similar to system used on Ariane 5 ? - Rod57 (talk) 11:05, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, VESPA geometry is pretty similar to Ariane's SYLDA 5 payload adapter:

--Pippo skaio (talk) 09:30, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Attribute List of Vega launches, please!

We took a rocket configurations graph from List of Vega launches and have not attributed that. Can someone attribute it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.183.212.131 (talk) 12:01, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

While I don’t necessarily agree with you because the table was originally here and was moved out of here (and the table doesn’t really ‘exist’ here just help:Transclusion it (if you edit the lists page; it will update here automatically as well, may not be immediate, but it should) I added that it’s an excerpt from that page. Is that good? Thanks for creating that page. OkayKenji ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:41, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. The content on List of Vega launches has formatting issues here since it is not designed to be here. Can we just copy the graph and edit the heights? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.183.212.131 (talk) 21:41, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Split ? Why is Vega-C here rather than its own page

Vega-C seems very different from Vega (4 new stages ?, very little carried over?) so lets have a new page, with its own infobox and history (like Ariane 4, Ariane 5 and Ariane 6 are separate) ? - Rod57 (talk) 18:43, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Apart from AVUM the stages are the same engines, just carrying more solid propellant. P120 is exactly the same as P80 but carrying more fuel, Zefiro is the same engine just strengthened for higher exhaust pressure, an improved rocket nozzle joint and a strengthened structural casing to handle the extra propellant weight and a larger payload fairing. Avum has received the most update having more fuel, shaved 100kg of structural weight and adding a multiple restart function. Vega-C is pretty much a stretch of the existing design. WatcherZero (talk) 03:59, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Based on that rationale then Ariane 1 to Ariane 4 should share one single article. AmigaClone (talk) 11:12, 13 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I still think it should be split out; as a separate article can have its own section structure and info box. Now that Vega-C has started flying, Most updates now will be about Vega-C (eg [2] ). - Rod57 (talk) 13:24, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Might make the most sense to split the article for each Vega variant and add a Vega rocket family article. GronkDev (talk) 22:07, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree it should be split out. I came to this page looking for Vega-C and was surprised it didn't have it's own page. It's different enough that the top of the page talking about Vega is confusing if you are looking for info about the most recent Vega-C launches. Are they even planning to launch any more regular Vega rockets? Gravel for breakfast (talk) 12:27, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Photo of nozzle of Zefiro 23

That nozzle looks pretty crappy. Someone please tell me/us that it is a used one from a test firing???? Dr.gregory.retzlaff (talk) 03:35, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Vega-C deserves its own article

I think that the Vega-C variant really deserves its own article. Vega-C is a much more advanced and prograssive version of the Vega launcher with differences like we had between the different versions of the Delta rocket family. And these launchers have their own articles. So why not Vega and Vega-C? 95.117.101.160 (talk) 12:40, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]