Vega Expected To Be Price-competitive With Russian Rockets at $42M Per Launch

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Europe's Vega small-satellite launcher, whose inaugural flight is scheduled for mid-February, will be sold commercially for about 32 million euros ($42 million) per launch — a price that can compete with converted Russian ballistic missiles, Vega officials said Jan. 23. In briefings at Europe's Guiana Space Center spaceport here on the northeast coast of South America, where Vega is nearing the end of nine years of development, program managers said the rocket's competitive position is even better than it was at the start of development.