VEGA-C POST-LAUNCH PRESS CONFERENCE, July 13, 2022, hybrid, 12:00 pm ET

Update, July 13, 11:30 am ET:  The launch was delayed for two hours this morning, but successfully lifted off at 9:13 am EDT.  The post-launch press conference now is at 12:00 pm EDT.

Orginal Entry: ESA will hold a press conference following the inaugural launch of Vega-C, which is scheduled for July 13, 2022 at 8:13 am local time at the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana (7:13 am EDT, 13:13 CEST).

The post-launch press conference is scheduled for 16:00 CEST (10:0o am EDT). The hybrid event will take place from ESA-ESRIN in Frascati, Italy; Kourou; and online on ESA TV. Participants are:

• Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Space Transportation Systems
• Giulio Ranzo, Avio CEO
• Giorgio Saccoccia, ASI President
• Marie Anne Clair, CNES
• Stephane Israel, CEO Arianespace

Italy’s Avio is the Vega-C prime contractor. ASI is the Italian Space Agency (the main payload is ASI’s Laser Relativity Satellite-2 or LARES-2). CNES is the French space agency.