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...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... (-40C in Plesetsk) to the heat of equatorial sites. In Kourou, French Guiana, one of the main challenges is oceanside humidity, ...likely maintain their present modest pace of launches from Kourou, Tanegashima, Uchinoura, Naro, Sriharikota and Semnan. ...
April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
...! Artist’s impression of the MIURA 5 on the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. The inaugural launch of could take place by the ... there, but our first commercial mission will be from Kourou in French Guiana (following an agreement we signed with ...
