ARIANESPACE · VEHICLE PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-06-05
Vega-C
Operational
Expendable
Small
7
Flights
Success / Partial / Failure
85.71%
Success Rate
6/7 flights
—
Fleet Leader
No booster telemetry
May 19, 2026
Cadence
Last completed flight
RELIABILITY & S/PF/F SPLIT
85.71%
Overall success rate · Wilson 95% LB 48.69%
6
Success
0
Partial Failure
1
Failure
0
Scrubbed
Days since last failure1262 days
Current success streak5
Last completed flightMay 19, 2026
Methodology IP
S/PF/F split is non-negotiable methodology. Partial failures are NOT collapsed into failures. A partial (e.g. payload delivered to wrong orbit, booster lost on otherwise-successful flight) is treated as a distinct outcome for underwriting. See /methodology/.
RECENT FLIGHTS
| Date | Mission | Payload | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2026 | Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) | — · 3,300 kg | Success | |
| Dec 01, 2025 | KOMPSAT-7 | — · 2,300 kg | Success | |
| Jul 26, 2025 | MicroCarb | — · 2,300 kg | Success | |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Biomass | — · 2,300 kg | Success | |
| Dec 05, 2024 | Sentinel-1C | — · 2,300 kg | Success | |
| Dec 21, 2022 | Pleiades Neo 5 | — · 2,300 kg | Failure | |
| Jul 13, 2022 | LARES 2 | — · 2,300 kg | Success |
PAYLOAD & ORBIT MIX
17.1K kg
Total mass lifted
—
Most-flown orbit
0% gov
Gov / commercial split
0
Crewed flights
OPERATOR CONTEXT
OperatorArianespace
Fleet success rate100.00%
Total fleet launches1
Vehicles operated1
REGISTRY DATA
First flight2022-07-13
Registry launches4 (as of 2025-12-31)
ClassSmall
Height35 m
Fairing diameter2.6 m
First-stage propellantsolid
ReusabilityExpendable
List price$37.0M
Payload capacity (kg)
LEO2,300 kg
SSO1,500 kg
Source: space_launch_vehicle_registry.json · Operator page →
METHODOLOGY
Per-vehicle reliability is aggregated from the AstraVeris launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower-bound error estimates. Subsystem outcomes are extracted by a local Gemma model from primary-source articles — outcomes are never fabricated; absence of a row means "not tracked". Aspirational vehicles (not yet flown) carry registry-only metadata with explicit "Not yet flown" banners. Full specifications: /methodology/. Licensing terms: /data-licensing/.
Not investment advice. For insurance underwriting, verify against operator investigation reports.