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

Demonstrators gesture during a protest at Kourou space center (Centre Spatial Guyanais) on April 4, 2017 in Kourou, French Guiana, to demand pay raises and improved public safety.

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 James Webb Space Telescope stands in the S5 Payload Preparation Facility at the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana, on November 5, 2021, where it is being tested and verified ahead of ...

European Space Agency (ESA) “chef du bureau” Charlotte Beskow at The Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. AFP via Getty Images / Jody Amiet The James Webb Space Telescope is expected ...

Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on board lifts off from the launch pad at Europe’s spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, on ...

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.

In 2017, protesters occupied the Guiana Space Centre in Kouru, French Guiana, shutting down half the world’s space launches for nearly the entire month of April. French Guiana is a “department ...

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.