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Regulus is a joint venture that produces propellant for Ariane 6 and is owned 60% by Avio and 40% by ArianeGroup.
Europropulsion is a 50-50 joint venture between ArianeGroup and Avio that builds Ariane 6’s solid rocket boosters.
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’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.
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 backlog of Vega launches stretches into 2022, concentrating sales efforts on launch slots three years out.
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.
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 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 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 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.
ArianeGroup and Avio are using booster commonality of the P120C between Ariane 6 and Vega C to increase production scale and lower costs for both rockets.
The European Space Agency’s April launcher agreement provided missions for the Avio-led Vega C rocket.
Avio anticipates launching four to five times annually for the next few years with the goal of reaching five annual flights by 2023.
Avio launched once in March 2019 and planned three more missions in 2019: Falcon Eye in July, a fully booked dedicated rideshare mission in September, and a second Falcon Eye in November.
Arianespace and Avio will launch Vega C for the first time in March 2020, sending Lares-2 into a 6,000-kilometer orbit at an inclination of 75 degrees.