https://spacewatch.global/tag/guiana-space-center/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:00:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/guiana-space-center/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2024/07/airbus-prepares-to-ship-sentinel-2c-to-the-european-spaceport/ Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:00:19 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=55934 After road transport from Airbus in Friedrichshafen to Bremen on 2 July, the Airbus-built Sentinel-2C satellite, the third Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, is about to begin its journey to the European spaceport in French Guiana by ship. Operators loaded the container onto the Canopée, the first sail-assisted cargo ship specifically to transport Ariane 6 rocket components from European ports to the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, where it will arrive in approximately two weeks. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/01/arianespace-to-launch-eight-more-galileo-satellites/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 07:00:13 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38478 ESA and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) chose Arianespace to launch eight Galileo satellites to add to the constellation. The company will deploy the first two satellites this year, which will lead to the full operational capability of the Galileo open service. The three successive launches will be on board of Ariane 62 rockets in 2023, 2024 and 2025.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/11/vega-vv17-fails-taranis-and-seosat-ingenio-satellites-both-lost/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=28317&preview=true&preview_id=28317 Vega VV17 fails, Taranis and SEOSAT-Ingenio satellites both lost]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/02/arianespace-prepares-to-launch-japanese-and-korean-satellites/ Fri, 14 Feb 2020 06:00:32 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=19401 Arianespace will orbit two telecommunications satellites for its third mission of 2020, using an Ariane 5 launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center, lofting JCSAT-17 for the Japanese operator SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, and GEO-KOMPSAT-2B for Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/05/arianespace-to-orbit-spanish-seosat-ingenio-earth-observation-satellite/ Tue, 21 May 2019 05:00:34 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=14200 Arianespace and the European Space Agency have announced the signature of a launch services contract with a Vega launcher for SEOSat (Spanish Earth Observation SATellite) for Spain's Center for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI - Centro para el Desarrollo Technologico Industrial).]]> https://spacewatch.global/2016/12/turkish-reconnaissance-satellite-gokturk-1-launched-successfully/ Tue, 06 Dec 2016 09:00:55 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=2423 This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.]]>