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For its sixth mission in 2020 and the first Vega flight of the year, Arianespace will orbit 53 satellites on the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof of Concept (PoC) flight, performed on behalf of 21 customers.

The European Space Agency (ESA) funded the SSMS hardware development and also contributed with the European Union to the funding of this “Proof of Concept” (PoC) flight.

VV16’s mission – with 21 customers from 13 countries on board – will serve different types of applications: Earth observation, telecommunications, science, technology/education, etc.

This Arianespace’s concept – involving multiple small satellites from 1 kg. to 500 kg. being flown together on Vega with the objective of sharing the launch cost – has been developed with the support of ESA and Avio. The satellite dispenser is an ESA product developed by Avio under ESA leadership and it is produced by the Czech company, SAB Aerospace s.r.o.…