World news about “French Guiana” published by euronews.
European rocket lifts off from French Guiana The European VEGA rocket launched from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou early on Tuesday morning to put satellites into orbit. The launcher was originally… 07/05/2013
European rocket launch postponed Europe’s small satellite launcher, Vega, which was due to take off from French Guiana Saturday morning has had its blast-off postponed. The rocket was… 04/05/2013
Evergreen Soyuz takes off from the Tropics It took Gagarin and Sputnik into space, and has flown safely over 1700 times: Soyuz is over 60 years old, but it begins a new tropical chapter this autumn… 21/10/2011
French Guiana: satellites launched – nocomment An Ariane 5 rocket and its payload of two telecommunications satellites were launched from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on Wednesday. 23/09/2011
Soyuz rocket blasts off from French GuianaA Soyuz rocket blasted off from French Guiana on the north east coast of South America on Friday, the second launch of its kind. The Russian-built… 17/12/2011
Ariane 5 takes offAfter more than a month of delays caused by technical problems and bad weather, Ariane 5 has finally launched into space from French Guiana. 40 minutes… 07/08/2011
French Caribbean regions reject more autonomyVoters in two French overseas departments in the Caribbean have overwhelmingly said ‘no’ to greater autonomy from Paris. Nearly 70 percent in French Guyana… 11/01/2010
ESA gears up to launch Herschel and PlanckThe countdown is on in French Guiana to one of the most important launches in the history of European Space Research. This single Ariane rocket will launch… 14/05/2009
