Avio S.p.A. is an Italian aerospace company specializing in space propulsion and launch systems. As the prime contractor for the Vega rocket family, including Vega and Vega C, Avio provides launch services for institutional, governmental, and commercial payloads. They are also a subcontractor for the Ariane program, supplying components like boosters and stage separation motors and partners with organizations like the European Space Agency (ESA). Associated keywords include: space launchers, solid-propellant motors, liquid propulsion, Vega, Vega C, Ariane, ESA.
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Arianespace launches the Avio-built Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Center.
Avio provides propulsion systems for the CAMM-ER surface-to-air missile, which completed its first flight in 2019.
Avio’s 2019 revenue fell 5% to 368,700,000 EUR while profit rose 5% to 27,000,000 EUR.
Avio expects small satellites below 1,000 kg to be the fastest growing segment of the launch market between 2020 and 2028.
Europropulsion is a 50-50 joint venture between ArianeGroup and Avio that builds Ariane 6’s solid rocket boosters.
Regulus is a joint venture that produces propellant for Ariane 6 and is owned 60% by Avio and 40% by ArianeGroup.
Avio supplies the motor cases for Ariane 6’s solid rocket boosters and ArianeGroup supplies the nozzles.
Avio and an independent inquiry board with ESA, the French space agency, and the Italian space agency traced Vega’s 2019-07-15 failure to the Zefiro-23 second stage.
Avio has started building hardware for Vega’s return-to-flight mission, including second-stage components modified to prevent a repeat of the July failure.
Avio is preparing a transition phase from 2020 to 2023 to build Vega and the more powerful Vega C simultaneously.
Avio’s EBITDA for the first nine months of 2019 grew 5% to 23,500,000 EUR.
Avio reported 270,300,000 EUR in revenue for the first nine months of 2019, a 3% increase from the same period in 2018.
One Avio program targets improvements that can be implemented between 2023 and 2025 to reduce costs using new materials, commercial off-the-shelf equipment, and more automated production processes.
Avio’s backlog of Vega launches stretches into 2022, concentrating sales efforts on launch slots three years out.
Arianespace planned corrective actions with Vega manufacturer Avio to return Vega to flight during the first quarter of 2020 after the July 2019 launch failure.
Avio pushed Vega C’s debut from 2019 to March 2020 to accommodate a total of four launches of the current-generation Vega in 2019.
ISISPACE will cooperate with AVIO S.p.A. and the European Space Agency on the Vega launch vehicle family to support the European space industry.
ISISPACE will work with AVIO S.p.A. and the European Space Agency to perform qualification activities for the ISIS CubeSat deployment sequencer to qualify it for use on the Vega launcher.
ISISPACE will work with AVIO S.p.A. and the European Space Agency to perform qualification activities to qualify the ISIS sequencer for use on the Vega launcher.
Avio planned one more test-firing of Vega C’s first-stage P120C engine later in 2019 to evaluate the booster configured as a strap-on for Ariane 6.