18 December 2019
After delays, ESA’s exoplanet mission launches successfully
ESA’s Cheops mission lifted off on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 09:54:20 CET on 18 December on its exciting mission to characterise planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. ...
25 September 2020
Baikonur - Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
... of the space community. Many of the names evoke images of the events that took place there: Canaveral, Kourou, Shriharikota, Woomera... choose your favourite. The Baikonur Cosmodrome is among the most notable, not least because...
17 November 2020
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
... return to flight, the Vega launch vehicle lifted off as scheduled at 02:52 CET / 22:52 local time from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The first three stages functioned nominally until the ignition of the AVUM upper stage...
16 December 2021
NASA delays launch of JWST
... dollars (8.8 billion euros) have forced delays. Webb was built in the US and transported to its launch site in Kourou in French Guyana this year, where its launch date of 18 December was already pushed back after an incident...
