Vega-C launch anomaly

For Arianespace’s VV22 mission, a Vega-C launch vehicle launched the Pléiades Neo 5 and 6 satellites into Sun-synchronous orbit, from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, on 21 December 2022, at 01:47 UTC (20 December, at 22:47 local time). Due to a problem with the second stage, the mission did not reach the intended orbit. Pléiades Neo 5 and 6 (1977 kg) were the two final satellites of the Pléiades Neo Earth observation constellation.
Credit: Arianespace
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[TheYoyozo]

The launch team has to feel crushed to lose the vehicle so deep into the launch. My heart goes out to them.

[MichaelClark-uwex]

Right when the trajectory showed it off course, the actual video of the rocket looks like the exhaust plume moves around relative to the rocket like the vectored thrust was trying to compensate for something.
My guess would be assymetric thrust, guidance malfunction or perhaps an exhaust bell burnthrough

[andrexentra]

C'est la première fois que je vois une fusée partir en couille à ce point sur la trajectoire

[jumsaesiaw]

I have never seen a rocket 🚀 nosedive like this one, , , and anomaly speeds.

[jaqyschannel]

It crashed into the ocean very close to the sailboat my husband was on when he sailed over the Atlantic in December. A couple of hours after the crash, they got called on the satellite phone by a couple of different emergency agencies, checking if everything was ok because a boat behind them thought they saw emergency flares in the sky in the direction the boat my husband was on and reported it. Then, another boat ahead of them saw what they thought were meteorites crashing into the ocean behind them (again in the direction of my husband's boat). So yeah, two boats in the area saw something in the sky, both in the direction of our sailboat and the person onboard that was on shift missed it; he probably was below deck making some food or something and very annoyed with himself for having missed it.

[gregorymarkus]

It looks like the computer had a timing issue and thought it was farther along in the launch

[supernova]

The first stage did fine but the second stage appears to fail to ignite its engine.

[baajey]

it feels bad when such things (from any country) has an anomaly. best of luck for the future.

[jonathanricketts]

I was watching this launch last night and when I was just about to go to bed. I peeked on the bottom left side of the screen on the orbit line, and it reminded me of Vega when it went off course. And I noticed the X was not following the line. When I saw that I was so crushed, Vega C failing on its 2nd flight with those two big satellites on Arianespace's last flight for this year, So sad.

[skills]

i thought i saw green flames for a moment, did it burn the navigation system or something?

[seantaggart]

Rip vega
But fear not
We shall fight on

[pablowin]

if they failed to enter orbit then they will fall into the atmosphere???

[Rami-llbq]

how much costs to ensure a rocket like this?

[V-xn]

Oh, well, it’s only a second launch of the new Vega-C. These things are likely to happen. Wish the Italians, all ESA best of luck. Would be great to see that small reusable spaceplane ESA is building launched.

[charles]

Why apologize everyone knows there is a 50/50 chance things could go wrong they gave there all better luck next time

[rogerc]

Animation does not represent telemetry data.

[understandingautism]

So they didn’t make it to orbit it crashed

[pumalee]

ESA may launch too little, and if it launches a little more, it will have experience. It depends on the budget though.

[eskanderx]

Space is hard.

Luckily the payload wasn't scientific.

[AZ-comn]

Sorry to see the failure and hope they succeed next time.
When you watched China launching one or two per week like a clock work, you lost the appreciation of how difficult the space technology is, which indicated by current failure in ESA.
It seems only China has the capable manpower, technology and financial resources in space exploration (62 launches this year with 100% successful rate).
I wish ESA best of luck❤