Launch News Vega-C VV22 - Pléiades NEO 5 & 6 (Launch failure)

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1605275554940440583

T0 at 15 minutes... notice the flash and tumble during the second stage burn.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1605392450289250304

https://twitter.com/x/status/1605391518256209923

It seems to be failing often...

 

[clipper]

That broadcast host was uh... interesting. I'm guessing she wasn't provided with any scripts for situations like this, so poor David got the short end of stick.

'Well, it was a very spectacular liftoff'