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Guiana Space Centre

Kourou, 🇫🇷 France

The Guiana Space Centre also called Europe's Spaceport is a French and European spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana, a… Read more…

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Guiana Space Centre
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Walk · 6 min
Corner Café
45 min
Walk · 18 min
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The Guiana Space Centre also called Europe's Spaceport is a French and European spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana, a region of France in South America. Operational since 1968, it is particularly suitable as a location for a spaceport. It fulfills the two major geographical requirements of such a site:

It is near the equator, so that less energy is required to manoeuvre a spacecraft into an equatorial, geostationary orbit. Rockets launch to the east to take advantage of the angular momentum provided by Earth's rotation.

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Address French Guiana
Coordinates 5°13'46.744" N, 52°46'33.083" W
Riverside Hotel
Taxi · 8 min
Guiana Space Centre
2h
Walk · 6 min
Corner Café
45 min
Walk · 18 min
Riverside Hotel

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