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Image Caption: The site of a ground station for Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system, inside the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), near Kourou in French Guiana, was inaugurated on 19 November 2009. The site, which was...
Russia is equipping its spaceport at Kourou, the Space Center of French Guiana. This week it sent there two Soyuz rockets. They will be launched into space in 2010 along with the Russian boosters Vega. At the moment, a new...
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Nov 16, 2009 - The new Soyuz operating base in French Guiana is entering final preparations for Arianespace's inauguration of commercial missions next year, with the facility's launch pad undergoing...
A news story has just appeared on Britain’s BBC news channel, containing a two-minute video clip showing close-ups of the antennae and other elements of the Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) satellite, currently under...
The first two Soyuz rockets scheduled to launch from a new launch site in French Guiana have left Russia, Arianespace announced. The rockets are being shipped from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Kourou, French Guiana on a vessel...
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Sunday, November 8, 2009 Source: Arianespace The first two Soyuz launchers have left Russia for the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana (northern part of South America). The two...
ST. PETERSBURG, November 7 (RIA Novosti) -- A special cargo ship carrying parts of two Russian Soyuz-ST rockets on Saturday left the port of St. Petersburg, heading to the Kourou space site, the Russian space agency said....
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- South Korea plans to launch its first weather-communications satellite into space in March, 2010, the country's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said on Friday. According to the ministry,...
THE MOMENT: The European Space Agencys Planck spacecraft gets a thorough cleaningincluding vacuuming and an ultraviolet inspection to check for dust particlesnear Kourou, French Guiana, before its launch last May 14. In August...
Engineers at Arianespace, the manufacturer for the heavy-lift delivery system Ariane 5, can be proud of their work. Their rocket design has once again proven itself to be one of the most efficient and reliable in the world,...
