Last week, SEOSAT-Ingenio was loaded at the Torrejón de Ardóz Air Base, near Madrid, on board Volga-Dnepr’s Antonov An-124 cargo plane bound for the Kourou launch site.  The Spanish satellite built by Airbus shared the flight to Guyana with the French satellite Taranis from CNES.  The launch, scheduled for 18 November aboard a Vega launcher, will see both SEOSAT-Ingenio and Taranis ride-sharing towards similar orbits, at an altitude around 700 km  Airbus said a VESPA payload dispenser, … [Read more...] about An-124 delivers Spain’s Airbus-built satellite for space launch