French Guiana

Space

Ariane 6 successfully completes first commercial mission

The European Space Agency's Ariane 6 rocket successfully launched a French military satellite into space this week on its first commercial mission.

07/03/2025

Space

Europe's Vega rocket readies for lift off for the last time

The Vega small-satellite launcher is taking off for its swansong mission on Thursday morning.

04/09/2024

Space

Ariane 6 rocket being assembled ahead of inaugural launch this summer

The European Space Agency (ESA), Arianespace, and French space agency CNES are in the final stretch of preparations for Ariane 6's inaugural launch.

02/05/2024

Mobility

Ariane 5 successfully launches on final mission after 27-year service

The launch of the last Ariane 5 mission leaves the European Space Agency (ESA) without its own launcher for the first time in over 40 years.

06/07/2023

French Guiana

Space telescope blasts off from French Guiana to replace aging Hubble

The world's most powerful space telescope has blasted off into orbit, headed to an outpost 1.5 million kilometres from Earth.

25/12/2021

World

Facing a surge in cases, French Guiana asks Paris 'where's your help?'

The overseas territory is technically equal to any other French department, such as Provence, Calais or Isère. But residents say the health system is not on par with that in the mainland.

23/07/2020

Green News

Oceans at threat: First humans deep dive into endangered Amazon Reef

On board the Greenpeace ship, six divers took the plunge to raise awareness about the irreversible risks to our ocean reefs.

19/09/2019

French Guiana

Watch: ESA launches high-speed network into atmosphere atop a rocket

The EDRS aims to create what has been called the "Space Data Highway" — a high-speed network that can transfer optical data from satellites to Earth in near-real-time.

07/08/2019

World

Six satellites launched as part of new internet project to serve remote areas

A rocket carrying six satellites took off from French Guiana on Wednesday. It's the first step in a project aimed at giving millions of people in remote areas of the world access to high speed internet.

28/02/2019

French Guiana

Off the grid: A doctor’s ‘gap year’ in remote French Guiana

A nine-hour flight, four-hour drive and four-hour boat trip separates Nicolas Rombauts from his native France. Chasing an adventure, the GP trekked to a remote part of French Guiana to take up his post at a rainforest clinic, that has truly thrown him into the thick of it.

05/04/2018

Next Series

Race to build Ariane 6 rocket launch pad

The space race to build the new Ariane 6 rocket pad in French Guiana is underway.

14/12/2017

Next Series

Legends of Space, ep 11: Ariane 1 on Christmas Eve, 1979

On Christmas Eve 1979 the first Ariane 1 rocket took off, paving the way for a long line of European launchers

14/12/2017

French Guiana

Protests grind French Guiana to a halt

French Guiana hit by protests and strikes

10/04/2017

French Guiana

General strike begins in French Guiana

A general strike in protest over high rates of crime and unemployment begins in French Guiana

27/03/2017

World

LISA Pathfinder to seek out Einstein's gravity waves, reveal true universe

From the Guiana spaceport near Kourou, just five degrees north of the equator, our correspondent Claudio Rosmino waited with baited breath for

02/12/2015

World

LISA Pathfinder's mission poised to discover the secrets of gravity

The European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder mission, originally scheduled to lift off from French Guyana in the early hours of December 2, has been

01/12/2015

French Guiana

Ariane 5 launches a further two satellites into space

Arianespace has successfully sent a further two satellites into space. The Ariane 5 rocket was launched from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French

28/05/2015