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 Encyclopedia: Centre Spatial Guyanais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese.
French/ World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia.
They will thus use the Guiana Space Centre as an alternative to their The Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром Байконур;, Kosmodrom Baykonur), also called Tyuratam, is the worlds oldest and largest working space launch facility.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Centre-Spatial-Guyanais   (758 words)

  
 Centre Spatial Guyanais External links Kourou French Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport Europe Europe's Spaceport Soyuz ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In addition, maneuvering the satellites to the desired orbit is usually simpler when the launch is made close to the equator.
Actualités russes : Implantation du lanceur Soyouz-St au centre...
CSG headquarters at the Centre Technique, with a full scale mockup of Ariane 5.
en.powerwissen.com /WNHmf2f1dHJ859nqcjV9SA%3D%3D_Kourou_spaceport.html   (415 words)

  
 The Various Centres
ESTEC- a real nerve centre for the Agency's activities- is responsible for the technical preparation and management of ESA space projects, the development of which is entrusted to the European space industry.
The centre, which employs approximately 1075 ESA staff, provides technical support to ESA's ongoing automatic satellite and manned space project activities as well as to Europe's space industry through its specialised manpower and laboratory facilities in all major technical space disciplines.
The European Astronaut Centre, at Cologne in Germany, has the task of selecting and training the men and women who in a few years' time will be taking part in missions on board the Columbus laboratory attached to the International Space Station.
www.servitel.es /paco/web/esa/estabs.html   (642 words)

  
 Centre Spatial Guyanais - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Centre Spatial Guyanais - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kourou_spaceport   (334 words)

  
 Space Today Online - space rocket launch sites around the world
CSG is owned by the French national space agency, CNES.
CSG is one of the most favorable sites for launches of satellites to geostationary orbit.
Today, France is part of the European Space Agency, which fires space rockets from the Kourou space launch complex known as Centre Spatial Guyanais.
www.spacetoday.org /Rockets/Spaceports/LaunchSites.html   (6207 words)

  
 AMSAT P3-D Launch Campaign Kourou
The Centre Spatial Guyanais is where the european ARIANE rocket is launched.
The technical centre of the CSG with the Jupiter control centre and the musuem.
The launch area with the S3 buildings for filling operations is about 15km away from the S1 technical centre.
www.amsat-dl.org /launch   (390 words)

  
 Pedantry - everything that bored you to death in high school
I intend to pursue a career in natural language processing, and that is one of the few careers where Dutch is a huge asset.
I was just watching the Mars Express launch on the Beeb - it's a European Mars probe, launch on a new model Soyuz rocket from Baikonur in Russia - and that reminded me of something I meant to blog a few days ago.
Alors que les responsables du centre spatial guyanais ont à gérer la réduction de leurs effectifs consécutive à la fin du programme Ariane-4 et à la révision à la baisse du nombre des lancements effectués par le lanceur européen Ariane-5, il leur faut aussi se préparer à accueillir bientôt sur leur base le Soyouz russe.
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 ESA - Europe's Spaceport - About Europe's spaceport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When the European Space Agency came into being in 1975, the French Government offered to share its Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) with ESA.
For its part, ESA approved funding to upgrade the launch facilities at the CSG to prepare the spaceport for the Ariane launchers that were under development.
Since then, ESA has continued to fund 2/3rd of the spaceport's annual budget in order to finance the operations and the investments needed to maintain the top level services provided by the spaceport for the launch campaigns.
www.esa.int /SPECIALS/Launchers_Europe_s_Spaceport/ASEGCOI4HNC_0.html   (404 words)

  
 BTS | International Space Transportation
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace, a European company, launch commercial, military, and government satellites from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), in Kourou, French Guiana.
Of the 52 vehicles launched from CSG between 1997 and 2001, 51 were successful- a 98% success rate [2].
The Centre Spatial Guyanais, in Kourou, French Guiana, collected an estimate $948 million in revenues in 2001, nearly twice as much as all other nations combined.
www.bts.gov /products/transportation_indicators/may_2002/Special/html/International_Space_Transportation.html   (885 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hispasat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eutelsat S.A. is a French corporation which operates 24 telecommunications satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
First satellite to be launched was the Hispasat 1-A, in 11 September, 1992 using an Ariane 4, from the Centre Spatial Guyanais, in Kouru, (French Guiana) and put into geostationary orbit 36.000 km height of Equator at 30 ° West.
The Ariane Family The name Ariane refers to a series of a civilian European expendable launch vehicles for space launch use.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hispasat   (583 words)

  
 CSG Centre spatial guyanais Jean - Michel Desobeau! + + +   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Guianas: Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana Adventure Itinerary/Rates
The guides have lived their entire lives in the rainforest, and have an incredible understanding of nature and how to utilise its resources.
Visit the local school, medical centre and church along with some of the village houses.
Lunch at the Relais Spatial, near the Spatial Center.
www.travelvantage.com /tou_guy_guianas.html   (2811 words)

  
 Barreira do Inferno Launch Center
Since 1979, the a result of an agreement between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Brazilian Government, the Range facilities were improved in to order you enable the CLBI you provide support you the ARIANE Program.
This support consists of telemetry dates acquisition, Real-teams dates processing and transmission you Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) and Centre Spatial de Toulouse (CTS).
The CLBI acts in the segment of launching of sounding rockets and tracing of space devices.
www.globalsecurity.org /space/world/brazil/inferno.htm   (524 words)

  
 Cnes - The Guiana Space Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
ESA contributed to its development by financing most of the improvement and extension work to make it the launch site for Ariane, the spearhead of Europe’s space programme, starting in 1979.
The Guiana Space Centre (CSG) is today one of the most modern and best-equipped launch sites in the world.
It has won the confidence of many industrial customers in Europe, as well as in the Americas, Japan and India, which use the base to launch their satellites.
www.cnes.fr /html/_455_461_1429_.php   (222 words)

  
 Space Today Online - Solar System - Comets - Rosetta probe
The ambitious Rosetta flight plan was made possible by the powerful boost of ESA's Ariane 5 rocket firing the probe on its interplanetary trajectory.
The European Space Agency fires space rockets from its Kourou space launch complex known as Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), in French Guiana on the northeastern coast of South America.
Rosetta was to have been launched in January 2003 on an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou.
www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Comets/Rosetta.html   (1550 words)

  
 ::: Space News Actualites :::
De son côté, Zhang Bainan, concepteur en chef du véhicule spatial, annonce que les nombreuses modifications et améliorations apportées de Shenzhou 1 à Shenzhou 6 ont permis de découvrir certains défauts dans la conception de base du vaisseau russe Soyouz, dont il représente une évolution réalisée grâce à des techniques qui n'existaient pas à l'époque.
Le vaisseau spatial Shenzhou 6 a été placé en orbite ce mercredi 12 octobre à 01h21 TU (03h21 de Paris) depuis le cosmodrome de Jiuquan, en Mongolie Intérieure.
Iouri Bakhvalov, Premier Directeur Général Adjoint du centre spatial Khrounitchev a confirmé, au nom de la Commission d’Etat russe, l’échec du lancement du satellite CryoSat à la suite d’une anomalie dans la séquence de lancement, et exprimé ses regrets à l’ESA ainsi qu’à l’ensemble des partenaires concernés.
www.spacenews.be /flash.html   (3417 words)

  
 RedNova - Images Of The Day - Amazon and French Guiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Today the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) is jointly supported by ESA and serves as Europe's spaceport.
Kourou is located on the coast at about the middle of the image.
This image was acquired on 16 October 2005 by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) in Reduced Resolution Mode, providing a spatial resolution of 1200 metres and an image swath of 1170 kilometres.
www.rednova.com /images/images-of-the-day/img/9589/amazon_and_french_guiana/index.html   (413 words)

  
 New Soyuz Model Successfully Launched
This will be made possible through the "Soyuz at CSG" ESA programme, which encompasses the development of a Soyuz launch complex on the territory of Sinnamary and participation in the Soyuz 2-1b development.
ESA's decision to open the CSG for the exploitation of the Soyuz ST launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is a major step forward in reinforcing the range of accessible missions that can be performed from the Spaceport.
The versatile and flexible medium-class Soyuz ST launch vehicle, together with the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the Vega small launcher will provide Arianespace with a family of launchers enabling it to cost-effectively perform the full spectrum of commercial and institutional missions from French Guiana.
www.spacedaily.com /news/launchers-04zzi.html   (659 words)

  
 Un Beluga d'Airbus va Acheminer le Satellite SPOT-5 le Centre Spatial Guyanais, Port Spatial de l'Europe a Kourou | ...
Un Beluga d'Airbus va Acheminer le Satellite SPOT-5 le Centre Spatial Guyanais, Port Spatial de l'Europe a Kourou
Spot-5, qui est dŽveloppŽ et fabriquŽ par Astrium pour le compte du CNES, sera lancŽ depuis le Centre spatial guyanais (CSG) ˆ Kourou par Ariane 4 au mois dÕavril, et sera placŽ sur orbite ˆ 832 km dÕaltitude.
A bord du Beluga, le satellite de trois tonnes voyagera dans deux conteneurs isothermes spŽciaux de 4,8 m de haut, 7 m de long et 4,5 m de large, un chargement trop volumineux pour tre acheminŽ par un autre avion-cargo.
www.spaceref.com /news/viewpr.html?pid=7480   (573 words)

  
 International Travel News: The road less traveled—biking to Suriname to French Guiana - travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On our way, a tropical rainstorm pelted the highway and turned the roadside into an aromatic brew of earthy smells.
Along this route is the town of Kourou, site of the Centre Spatial Guyanais (Guiana Space Center).
Cayenne was touted by the Lonely Planet guide as one of the loveliest capital cities in South America.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3648/is_9_28/ai_110315056   (1387 words)

  
 History LessonFrench Guiana
The European Space Centre at Kourou has brought a corner of French Guiana into the modern world and attracted a sizable expatriate work force.
These days, thanks to the influence of the European space program, it has rocketed from the 19th century straight into the 21st.
It's worth visiting the town and touring the Centre Spatial Guyanais to witness this collision of worlds.
www.gypsylounge.com /x/sam/history_lesson/fgu.htm   (2088 words)

  
 Azores Joins ESA's Tracking Network In Readiness For ATV Launch
The facility comprises a platform to host the mobile tracking station, along with an electricity supply, lightning protection and support infrastructure.
Monte das Flores will be part of the network of stations used to track launches from Europe's Guiana Space Centre (Centre Spatial Guyanais or CSG) to the International Space Station (ISS), starting with Jules Verne, the first launch of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) re-supply vehicle.
The 24 October inauguration of the facility began with a visit to the site, where the platform has already been built, then was followed by an official ceremony at an island hotel in the presence of all Members of the Regional Government as well as high-level representatives of the Government of Portugal.
www.spacedaily.com /news/robot-05zzzg.html   (1035 words)

  
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 La France et L'Espace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Un project du CNES de radiocommunications s'appelle "TELECOM 1".
TELECOM 1 est un système de communication qui inclue des satellites et des stations sur terre avec lesquels "la France a...un réseau de télécommunications avec les départements d'outre-mer." Le CNES développe aussi des lanceurs, comme Ariane, qui est maintenant le plus moderne moyen de transport spatial.
J'ai beaucoup étudié le programme spatial américain, et aussi (un peu moins) celui de la France.
www.amherst.edu /~agwiecko/FrSpace/Francais.html   (384 words)

  
 PSI XMM Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Full pictures can be loaded by clicking on the small versions below.
CSG = Centre Spatial Guyanais (Kourou, French Guyana)
ESTEC = European Space Research and Technology Centre ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
www.astro.phys.ethz.ch /staff/guedel/private/xmm/pictures7.html   (91 words)

  
 Eurasiasat 1 successfully launched on January 10
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An successfully launched Eurasiasat 1 from Ariane 44P Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), Kourou, pad ELA, at 2209 UTC (2:09 p.m.
The satellite will be positioned at 42°E, where it will be co-located with Turksat 1C.
www.gisdevelopment.net /news/2001/jan/eurasia.htm   (318 words)

  
 www.HorizonsUnlimited.com e-zine, The Motorcycle Travellers' News! May 2002 Edition
We managed to talk our way into a fully booked free 3 hour tour of the Centre Spatial Guyanais in the afternoon.
It is here that the European Space Agency, French Space Agency and the Ariane rocket operate from.
Ayers Rock was busy, this time we did the walk around the Rock (9.4Kms) and found that more interesting than the climb.
www.horizonsunlimited.com /newsletter/2002-05-01.shtml   (13223 words)

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