March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
Euclid is due for launch on a Soyuz-Fregat from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, by mid-2021. The optical/near-infrared survey mission, which is part of ESA’s Cosmic Vision ...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... Ariane, Soyuz and Vega launchers from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, on the Atlantic coast of South America. On ... Ariane 5 launch pads at the Guiana Space Centre near Kourou, French Guiana. The facility is used by the European ...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... by another agreement between ESA and Roskosmos defining each other’s responsibilities regarding the implementation of the ‘Soyuz in Kourou’ programme. Opening up the Guiana Space Center to a foreign launcher system in this manner paved the way for...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
...concrete news, the project and industry teams in Kourou, French Guiana, continued to prepare the spacecraft ...would find one. In October 2003 the launch campaign restarted, both in Kourou and at our control centre in Darmstadt. As expected, we had to...
01 December 2015
LISA Pathfinder set for liftoff
... for launch on a Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 04:15 GMT (05:15 CET). Separation from Vega...fully assembled in its mobile gantry at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. “LISA Pathfinder is a complex mission,”...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... satellites. Those with a higher mass have to be launched by Arianespace’s Ariane-5 rocket from the European spaceport of Kourou in French Guyana. Thereafter, there are any number of missions relating to remote sensing and communication and the ...
