September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... Launch Center. Brazil’s Geostationary and Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC) was launched from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana in 2017 for Brazilian government civil and military applications. Early success Investment...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... 27 (Britain and Italy). However, this is hardly a programme of cooperation. The days of the Soyuz rocket at the Kourou launch site in French Guiana appear to be numbered, as European customers move to Vega C, Ariane 6 and SpaceX. Similarly, there...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... orbited by Russian launchers both from their military base at Plesetsk and the now-abandoned Soyuz base in Kourou in the European Union - to spy on Russia! The sky over Maui 45-90 seconds after project Starfish Prime’s suborbital...
13 March 2015
ESA re-entry vehicle could pave way for reusable launcher
... the IXV,” said Giorgio Tumino, EXA’s IXV program manager, in a phone interview from the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. “Everything went smooth, and we are ready for the launch on the 11th. All our...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
Set to blast off tomorrow on a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 09:54 CET is ESA’s first mission dedicated to studying bright, nearby stars that are already known to ...
08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
... Space Telescope is scheduled to be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from Arianespace's ELA-3 launch complex at European Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana in 2021.
