18/11/2020 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 17 November, Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that they were launching an inquiry commission into the failure of the Vega launcher the previous day (see EUROPE B12603A31). The independent inquiry commission will be jointly chaired by Daniel Neuenschwander, the Director of Space Transportation at the ESA, and Stéphane Israël, the CEO of Arianespace. This is the second launcher failure in the space of a year (see EUROPE...