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 ...

A prototype of the P80 rocket motor, which will power the first stage of ESA’s new small launcher – Vega, was successfully tested on 4 December at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou ...

The head of the Russian Space Agency came to South America at the end of February, and brought some special rocks with him. That may have seemed a tad ironic, because the space project he had come to ...

LYON, France–French space agency CNES is beginning a €140 million ($168 million) refurbishment and modernization of Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, including a micro-launchpad in parallel ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. The launch of the UAE’s Falcon Eye 2 satellite atop a Soyuz-ST carrier rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, which had initially been scheduled for March 6 but ...

PARIS & TOULOUSE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: The EUTELSAT 172B satellite of Eutelsat Communications (Paris:ETL) is in the final stages of preparation at the Airbus Defence and Space ...

Bengaluru: The launch of India's latest communication satellite GSAT-16 in the early hours on Friday by Arianespace rocket from Kourou in French Guiana was deferred due to inclement weather at the ...