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Avio’s P120C booster serves as the first stage of Vega C and as a strap-on booster for Ariane 6, which ArianeGroup is producing.
Avio is working to finalize the pending ESA contracts and expects a backlog between 650 million and 680,000,000 EUR by the end of 2020.
Avio will not launch the Vega C rocket until at least the middle of 2021.
Avio reported net income of 8,400,000 EUR for the first half of 2020.
Avio originally anticipated three Vega launches in 2020 plus a Vega C launch at the end of 2020 or in early 2021.
Pending research and development contracts for European Space Agency projects agreed at the agency’s 2019 ministerial accounted for much of a 5 percent decline in Avio’s backlog to 632,000,000 EUR.
Arianespace and Avio were ready to launch Vega in June 2020 but upper-level winds delayed the mission into August 2020.
Avio will keep a team of launch personnel in French Guiana from May through August to try to complete three Vega launches 2020.
The team sent by Avio to the Guiana Space Center is subject to a 14-day quarantine implemented by the French space agency CNES before beginning launch activities.
After two Vega launches, Avio will decide whether to launch Vega C next or conduct another Vega launch based on scheduling and urgency.
Avio sent a team of more than 60 people to the Guiana Space Center on 2020-05-11.
Avio expects to receive the second tranche of the Ariane 6 booster production order either in 2020 or 2021.
Avio expects small satellites below 1,000 kg to be the fastest growing segment of the launch market between 2020 and 2028.
The European Space Agency’s 2019 ministerial conference allocated 490,000,000 EUR toward Avio programs.
Avio’s 2019 revenue fell 5% to 368,700,000 EUR while profit rose 5% to 27,000,000 EUR.
Avio provides propulsion systems for the CAMM-ER surface-to-air missile, which completed its first flight in 2019.
Avio implemented safety procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic including measuring employee temperatures, sanitizing work areas between shifts, and reducing floor occupancy to less than 50% of a regular full-time shift.
Arianespace launches the Avio-built Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Center.
Avio is developing Vega E, a variant planned for around 2025 that would replace Vega C’s third and fourth stages with a single liquid-oxygen and methane-powered stage and increase lift capacity to 2,800 kg.
Avio supplies the motor cases for Ariane 6’s solid rocket boosters and ArianeGroup supplies the nozzles.