Guiana Space Centre

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by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope from Greenbelt, MD, USA

/ CC BY 2.0

The Guiana Space Centre, located in French Guiana, is a prominent spaceport operated by the French space agency CNES (Centre National d'Études Spatiales) in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace. Established in 1964, it serves as a launch site for a variety of rockets, including the Ariane, Soyuz, and Vega launch vehicles. Its geographic location near the equator provides an advantageous launch position, allowing rockets to take maximum advantage of the Earth's rotation, thus saving fuel and increasing payload capacity.

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