Liftoff is scheduled for 9:47 p.m. EST.
will carry to sun-synchronous orbit the satellites Pléiades Neo 5 and Pléiades Neo 6, which together weigh 4,359 pounds .The two spacecraft will complete the Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging constellation, which is owned and operated by European aerospace giant Airbus.
"The constellation is made of four identical satellites, built using the latest Airbus innovations and technological developments, and allows to image any point of the globe, several times per day, at 30-centimeter [12 inches] resolution," Arianespace wrote in a"Highly agile and reactive, they can be tasked up to 15 minutes before acquisition and send the images back to Earth within the following hour," Arianespace added.
Tuesday's launch was originally scheduled for Nov. 24 but was delayed nearly a month to replace faulty equipment on the Vega C. This work required taking the rocket back to a processing facility at Kourou and opening its payload fairing, Arianespace representatives
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