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Avio operates a solid rocket motor production facility at its base in Italy.
Avio is developing an engine powered by liquid oxygen and methane as part of its reusable-technology work.
Raytheon entered a strategic partnership with Italian aerospace firm Avio on 2024-07-23 to develop solid rocket motors for military applications and help address shortages in the U.S. defense industrial base.
Avio’s initial post-test review indicates that the new nozzle assembly performed as expected throughout the scheduled 94-second burning time of the 2024-05-28 test, simulating a nominal in-flight performance.
Avio found a new supplier for the carbon-carbon nozzle material but experienced a nozzle failure in a static-fire test in June 2023, leading to a redesign of the nozzle.
Avio conducted a static-fire test of the redesigned Zefiro-40 motor on 2024-05-28 at a company test facility in Italy.
Avio produces the solid rocket motors used in the Ariane 6 strap-on boosters.
Avio’s revenue from other technology development projects increased from 3,000,000 EUR in the first quarter of 2023 to 14,000,000 EUR in the first quarter of 2024.
Avio reported 80,000,000 EUR in orders in the first quarter of 2024 for defense programs producing motors for air-defense missiles.
Avio received 120,000,000 EUR in defense orders in all of 2023.
ESA and Avio considered using tanks originally built for Vega qualification more than a decade ago, which could have allowed a launch as soon as July 2024 but carried the risk of failing requalification tests.
European Spaceflight reported on 2023-12-04 that two tanks built for the final Avum upper stage went missing from an Italian factory used by Avio during a renovation of that facility.
Avio will take over responsibilities for launch operations and sales of the Vega rocket from Arianespace in a process slated to be completed by mid-2024.
Avio expects to reach an agreement with Arianespace on how to handle the 17 currently contracted Vega launches.
The European Space Agency is participating in an investigation led by Arianespace and Avio into the failed cubesat deployment on the 2023-10-08 Vega flight.
The European Space Agency’s access-to-space initiative package includes a decision point on whether Arianespace will continue to market and operate Vega, which is built by Avio.
Telespazio renewed its contract with AVIO to provide maintenance and operational support for the VEGA launch pad at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
Arianespace is responsible for operating the Ariane 6 and Vega C launchers developed by ESA, with ArianeGroup and Avio as the industrial prime contractors respectively.
Avio plans one static-fire test of the redesigned Zefiro 40 nozzle in the second quarter of 2024 to confirm performance and refine numerical models, followed by a second static-fire test before Vega C returns to flight.
A joint Avio and ESA task force has started work to adjust and modify part of the Zefiro 40 nozzle design.