Now playing Next 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
Now playing Next 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
Now playing Next 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
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Now playing Next 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
Now playing Next French Guiana Protests grind French Guiana to a halt French Guiana hit by protests and strikes 10/04/2017
Now playing Next 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
Now playing Next 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
Now playing Next 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
Now playing Next 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
