{"id":378646,"date":"2025-08-27T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378646\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:38:10","slug":"europe-awards-flight-ticket-launch-contracts-to-isar-aerospace-and-avio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378646\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Awards \u2018Flight Ticket\u2019 Launch Contracts to Isar Aerospace and Avio\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rendering of the Isar Aerospace Spectrum launch vehicle. Photo: Isar Aerospace<\/p>\n

The European Space Agency <\/b>(ESA) and European Commission<\/b> awarded launch service contracts to Isar Aerospace <\/b>and Avio<\/b> as part of the \u201cFlight Ticket\u201d initiative to test new technologies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Italian aerospace company Avio is the prime contractor for the Vega rocket family. Avio is now the official launch services provider of the Vega C vehicle instead of Arianespace, after a process in Europe and a formal declaration in July<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ESA signed launch service contracts with Avio for Vega C for three missions to fly as auxiliary passengers. This includes Spanish company Persei\u2019s E.T. Pack mission, German DLR\u2019s Pluto cubesat mission, and French Earth Observation company Grasp\u2019s second satellite GapMap-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing an active part of this initiative confirms the reliability of Vega-C and Avio\u2019s position as a key technological partner for the space sector,\u201d Avio CEO Giulio Ranzo commented.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Isar Aerospace was contracted for two missions. Infinite Orbits will launch two satellites to demonstrate a space debris cleanup mission, and Dutch company Isispace will manage the integration and in-orbit operation of three cubesats.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsar Aerospace delivers sovereign space capabilities for Europe and its partners. These agreements demonstrate the trust European institutions have in our launch services. It marks a key step in strengthening Europe\u2019s independent space access and sets the foundation for future institutional missions,\u201d Isar Aerospace CEO Daniel Metzler said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rendering of the Isar Aerospace Spectrum launch vehicle. Photo: Isar Aerospace The European Space Agency (ESA) and European…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-378646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115102895815910076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}