Avio: Vega-C return to flight set for Dec. 3; defense propulsion is fastest-growing business; a US site in 2025

by Peter B. de Selding

PARIS— Space launch and missile solid-rocket propulsion provider Avio SpA reported double-digit increases in revenue and gross profit for the nine months ending Sept. 30 and showed further proof that it is evolving into a company that is just as much a defense-propulsion provider as a space-launch operator.

Italy-based Avio is prime contractor for the just-retired Vega and current Vega-C small-satellite rockets, which alongside the heavy-lift Ariane 6 are the designated orbital vehicles for the European Space Agency (ESA) and . . .

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