... transmitters installed in buoys and other ground-based systems. Lift-off of Metop-C on 7 November 2018 from French Guiana. Ground segment Metop satellites provide continuity of accurate, high resolution observations from a low Earth, sun-synchronous...
...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 is project, but not...
... had discovered a new comet, I returned to Almaty for further observations. Svetlana Gerasimenko and Klim Churyumov in Kourou, French Guiana, just before the launch of the Rosetta spacecraft in March 2004 After my PhD I was invited to Dushanbe to the...
... be applied to other targets should the need arise. Planned to be launched by a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, AIM will have a projected launch mass of 800kg – less than a third of Rosetta’s launch mass. Measuring...
... teams were trained and looking forward to the start of the great adventure. The spacecraft was in Kourou, French Guiana, being prepared for launch. We were ready.
... and we were very concerned. Waiting for more concrete news, the project and industry teams in Kourou, French Guiana, continued to prepare the spacecraft for launch, and we did the same, completing our simulations programme. However...