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SSMS

fully commercial rocket

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Payloads
64 Assets
Assets deployed on this mission
3Cat-5/A
active
3Cat-5/B
active
AMICal-Sat
retired
Athena
retired
Dido-3
retired
EG-2 (Tyvak 0171)
retired
ESAIL
retired
Flock 4v 1
retired
Flock 4v 10
retired
Flock 4v 11
retired
Flock 4v 12
retired
Flock 4v 13
retired
Flock 4v 14
retired
Flock 4v 15
retired
Flock 4v 16
retired
Flock 4v 17
retired
Flock 4v 18
retired
Flock 4v 19
retired
Flock 4v 2
retired
Flock 4v 20
retired
Flock 4v 21
retired
Flock 4v 22
retired
Flock 4v 23
retired
Flock 4v 24
retired
Flock 4v 25
retired
Flock 4v 26
retired
Flock 4v 3
retired
Flock 4v 4
retired
Flock 4v 5
retired
Flock 4v 6
retired
Flock 4v 7
retired
Flock 4v 8
retired
Flock 4v 9
retired
GHGSat-C1
active
Hamarik
retired
ION SVC LUCAS
retired
KEPLER-2 (TARS)
retired
Lemur 2 Djuproera
retired
Lemur 2 EthanOakes
retired
Lemur 2 Oscarlator
retired
Lemur 2 Schmidtfall
retired
Lemur 2 Squarejaws
retired
Lemur 2 Ursa Avion
retired
NAPA 1
active
NEMO-HD
active
Nusat-6
retired
OSM-1 CICERO
retired
PICASSO
retired
SIMBA
retired
Spacebee-10
retired
Spacebee-11
retired
Spacebee-12
retired
Spacebee-13
retired
Spacebee-14
retired
Spacebee-15
retired
Spacebee-16
retired
Spacebee-17
retired
Spacebee-18
retired
Spacebee-19
retired
Spacebee-20
retired
Spacebee-21
retired
SSMS (SSMS)
retired
TRISAT
retired
UPM Sat-2
retired
Launch Details

Launch Date

9/3/2020

Launch Site

CSG ZLV

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Launch Vehicle

Vega 1 (Vega Family)

Mission Stats
Orbit
N/A
Operator
Unknown
Price (Est)
Secret
Payload Count
64
Entity Mentions
All verified mentions of this entity in source documents

As of October 19, 2023, the SSMS deployer used on VV23 was identified as produced by Avio and as an addition separate from the Vega launch vehicle.

Mentioned as: SSMSSourceFeb 4, 2026

ISIS – Innovative Solutions In Space – has joined the group of customers that signed contracts to launch payloads on Vega’s Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof Of Concept flight in early 2019.

Mentioned as: SSMSSourceMay 31, 2018

Arianespace performed the first SSMS launch using a Vega vehicle in September 2020, deploying more than 40 cubesats and seven smallsats into sun-synchronous orbit.

Mentioned as: SSMSSourceMar 25, 2021