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  • Vega soars into the sky with ESA’s Aeolus wind-monitoring satellite

    Tomasz NowakowskiAugust 22nd, 2018

    Arianespace successfully sent Europe’s wind-monitoring satellite named Aeolus to orbit on Wednesday, Aug. 22. The France-based firm used the smallest launch vehicle in its catalog, Vega, to carry out the first part of Aeolus's mission underway.