Europe’s Ariane 6 successfully launched two Galileo satellites from Kourou, strengthening the EU’s navigation constellation ...

LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, El Segundo, Calif. — The U.S. Air Force Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload was successfully launched today at 2:38 p.m. PDT from the Guiana Space Center, Kourou, French ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Labor protests in Kourou, French Guiana, have prompted Arianespace to postpone an Ariane 5 launch of two telecommunications satellites until at least Thursday. Arianespace said Monday it ...

The first pair of Galileo navigation satellites to launch on an Ariane 6 lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French ...

Ahead of the upcoming Ariane 5 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kourou – home to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, an overseas department of ...

Fed up with dreary weather? Fancy the tropics instead? If you're a space engineer who thrives in humid weather, consider Europe's spaceport. DW spoke to Tamara Tezzele about life and work in Kourou.

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 ...

KOUROU, French Guiana—One of the first things that the project manager of the world’s most powerful space telescope wanted to show me was the sloth. Bill Ochs, a longtime manager at NASA, had already ...

After more than two decades of delays and ballooning development costs, NASA’s next-generation space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, has arrived in French Guiana, South America — the site ...