April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... Champions League with a second division football team! Artist’s impression of the MIURA 5 on the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. The inaugural launch of could take place by the end of 2025. The success of a test flight like this...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
...that Europe’s traditional big launchers (like Ariane or Vega from French Guiana) are well served but perceives a gap in medium launchers...Europe has historically relied on the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, South America, for its heavy-lift Ariane ...
17 November 2020
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
... 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, eight minutes...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
...cause of astronautics in his roles as President of the French national space agency (CNES), Chair of the Council ...one-way colonisation trip. French President Emmanuel Macron was welcomed to the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in French Guiana at the end of...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... by spy planes or, nowadays, satellites. Sites needed an adjacent airport or seaport (such as Port Canaveral in Florida or Cayenne in French Guiana) and wide roads or railways to bring in the outsize cargoes. Three sites built long, adjacent shuttle...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
.... Do we need to wait until they put foot on the Moon or on Mars? An Ariane rocket on its launch pad in French Guiana - the programme can be viewed as a symbol of European cooperation. I am ready to believe because it is only in confrontation with the...
