WASHINGTON — Labor protests in Kourou, French Guiana, have prompted Arianespace to postpone an Ariane 5 launch of two telecommunications satellites until at least Thursday. Arianespace said Monday it ...

Arianespace put its next launch on indefinite hold due to local unrest in Kourou, French Guiana. Credit: France-Guyane WASHINGTON — An Ariane 5 launch already twice delayed by French Guiana labor ...

LYON, France–PLD Space, a Spain-based company developing a mini-launcher and organizing to become the launch service provider, is investing €10 million ($10.7 million) in a launch complex at Europe’s ...

The French space agency CNES has selected reusable rocket developer Maiaspace to use the former Soyuz launchpad in Kourou, French Guiana, after operations of the Russian rocket ceased following Moscow ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 2 June 2023 Dense equatorial forests, colonial towns and a major space centre are among the faces of French Guiana, a region of France on ...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft is in Toulouse being prepared for transport to Europe's spaceport in Kourou. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch in April on an Ariane 5 launcher.

KOUROU, French Guiana—One of the first things that the project manager of the world’s most powerful space telescope wanted to show me was the sloth. Bill Ochs, a longtime manager at NASA, had already ...

Launch of India's communication satellite GSAT-18 from Kourou, French Guiana using an Arianespace launch vehicle Ariane-5 VA-231, has been postponed by a day due to heavy cross winds, Indian Space ...

MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. Specialists from a Russian aerospace company are working at the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana to eliminate a malfunction of the Fregat upper stage for launching ...

An Ariane-5 rocket, carrying two telecommunication satellites blasts off on August 2, 2012 from the European space centre of Kourou, French Guiana. It will eventually place into orbit two ...

The huge launch pad complex for Arianespace’s new workhorse, Ariane 6, is in the final months of construction ahead of the new rocket’s debut in 2021. ELA-4 includes a massive mobile gantry that will ...

Engineers have unboxed the James Webb Space Telescope in French Guiana and will now prepare it for launch. The $10bn successor to the Hubble observatory arrived at Europe's Kourou spaceport five days ...