ESA has announced an official agreement to maintain this access to Guiana Space Centre (CSG) for the next decade, to 2035.

Guiana Space Centre, Kourou: The European Space Agency (ESA) operates its own spaceport in French Guiana. In 2014, the launch site successfully sent out the Sentinel-1A, which was an Earth ...

GKN Aerospace and ArianeGroup have signed a new Frame Contract for the operational phase of Ariane 6, securing Europe’s ...

The 207-foot-tall, multistage rocket lifted off from Guiana Space Centre in Korou, French Guiana without a hitch at 3 p.m. “It is electric here. There is such good mood.

Europe's Arianespace launched the Vega-C rocket on Thursday, marking a return to space for the upgraded Italian launcher two years after it failed during a debut commercial mission.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which launched Dec. 25, 2021 at 7:20 a.m. ET (12:20 p.m. GMT) from the Guiana Space Centre (also known as Europe's Spaceport) in French Guiana, is on a ...

ESA's historic mission to explore the moons of Jupiter and orbit the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede, has begun. The Juice robotic probe lifted off from Europe's Guiana Space Centre at ...

The heavy-lift rocket will launch from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana, with a four-hour launch window that starts at 11 a.m. PST on July 9.

1946 - French Guiana becomes an overseas department of France. 1951 - The infamous penal colonies, including Devil's Island are formally closed. 1968 - The Guiana Space Centre opens at Kourou.

The Vega-C rocket is on a launch pad at the Guiana Space Centre, northwest of Kourou in French Guiana. The Vega-C third stage, Zefiro-9, is lifted on the launch pad.