Berlin, May 12, 2004 – Australian telecommunications carrier Optus has chosen Arianespace to orbit its D1 and D2 satellites. The satellites will be delivered into orbit by Ariane and Soyuz launchers ...

and M&O activities of the launch base. In parallel to this, CNES (French Space Agency)has initiated, some years ago, a programme of recruitment of European staff to work at CNES/CSG, in French Guiana.

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 ...

French Space Agency CNES (Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales) has approved Munich-based Isar Aerospace to launch its rockets from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. Isar is already planning a ...

The Korea AeroSpace Administration and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) say the high-resolution optical observation satellite Multipurpose Practical Satellite No. 7 (Arirang 7) departs ...

To say The Guiana Space Centre is in a remote location is actually an understatement. The space facility in Kourou is located about 500 kilometrers (310 miles) north of the equator, at a latitude of ...

ESA's historic mission to explore the moons of Jupiter – and orbit the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede – is on its way today, as its eight-year voyage to the giant planet begins. At 2:14 pm ...

Thales chairman and CEO Patrice Caine said: "With Aurore, the only radar of its kind in Europe, Thales is contributing to French sovereignty by strengthening its capabilities for monitoring the space ...

Protesters withdrew from the rocket-launching space centre in French Guiana on Wednesday as the French government approved a one-billion-euro emergency package to quell a wave of strikes.