Date: November 2023 Potential Inaugural flight of Ariane 6 launch vehicle from Europe’s Spaceport, French Guiana Date: Q4 Ariane 6 will have the flexibility to launch both heavy and lightpayloadsto a wide range of orbits for applications such as Earth observation,telecommunication, meteorology, sc...
After repeated delays, the third Vega-Clifted offfrom the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana on the northeast coast of South America at 2120 UTC on December 5, almost two years to the day after the second launch attempt of the rocket failed due to a second-stage issue. Third Vega-C l...
The French government's newly released space strategy document says the European Union ultimately should take over the European Space Agency (ESA) and should help finance Europe's Guiana Space Center spaceport, which is on French territory.The document urges European nations to confront the fact ...
Launched into a suborbital trajectory on ESA's small Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, IXV will return to Earth as if from a low-orbit mission, to test and qualify new European critical reentry technologies such as advanced ceramic and ablative thermal protection. The 2 t...
In anticipation of a planned October 20 launch date, engineering crews at the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America, are working hard on preparing a well-known rocket for departure. The mission is scheduled to put the first elements of the Galileo satellite navigation system in Eart...
To celebrate the outstanding achievements of these three winning entries, ESA has invited them to experience a launch at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in 2019.
Spaceport Kourou in French Guiana. After a fuelling stop in the Azores Islands the Antonov will arrive early on 24 April. This Antonov flight was the first of four flights needed to transport the spacecraft and all handling and test equipment to Kourou. The flights are supported by three ...
Gaia, ESA's billion-pixel camera designed to map stars and other celestial objects in the galaxy, lifts off from ESA's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, by the end of 2011, aimed to provide knowledge of galaxy formation and its subsequent dynamical, chemical and star-forming evolution. As...
ESA’s Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, lifts off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.Image used with permission by copyright holder By observing planets as they transit across their stars, the satellite can see how much light from the star they block, which helps resear...
Since arrival at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, last August, the space ferry has been undergoing intensive preparations to fly to the International Space Station next month. Above: Technicians in Europe's spaceport in Kourou have the delicate task of loading dry cargo into ATV-3...