14 July 2022
Europe's Vega-C rocket makes successful debut flight
... rocket was infectious at the launch site in French Guiana this week (Wednesday, 13 July) as the countdown..., flight VV21 eventually lifted off smoothly from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 10:13 Kourou local time (15:13 CEST) on a mission lasting...
13 March 2015
ESA re-entry vehicle could pave way for reusable launcher
...a.m. EST (1300 GMT) Wednesday aboard a Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Center on the northern coast of South America. The launch ...in a phone interview from the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. “Everything went smooth, and we are ready for the ...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... transmitters installed in buoys and other ground-based systems. Lift-off of Metop-C on 7 November 2018 from French Guiana. Ground segment Metop satellites provide continuity of accurate, high resolution observations from a low Earth, sun-synchronous...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
...Italy). However, this is hardly a programme of cooperation. The days of the Soyuz rocket at the Kourou launch site in French Guiana appear to be numbered, as European customers move to Vega C, Ariane 6 and SpaceX. Similarly, there is project, but not...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... had discovered a new comet, I returned to Almaty for further observations. Svetlana Gerasimenko and Klim Churyumov in Kourou, French Guiana, just before the launch of the Rosetta spacecraft in March 2004 After my PhD I was invited to Dushanbe to the...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... be applied to other targets should the need arise. Planned to be launched by a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, AIM will have a projected launch mass of 800kg – less than a third of Rosetta’s launch mass. Measuring...
