The Latest Breaking News from Kourou

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket blasted off successfully for its maiden flight on Tuesday, a live video feed showed. The success of its three-hour flight is crucial for European countries, who hope to regain independent access to space more than a year after they retired their workhorse Ariane 5 rocket.

The Ariane 6, Europe's latest heavy-lift launch vehicle, is scheduled for its maiden voyage on 9 July from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. This debut mission will carry a payload of eight satellites and various experimental instruments.

The European Space Agency decided to postpone the launch of its Juice mission to Jupiter to Friday because of unfavourable weather conditions at the South American launchsite in Kourou, French Guiana.

Europe's Jupiter explorer JUICE missed its first one-second launch window on Thursday, April 13, because of bad weather at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

The Ariane 5 rocket is planned to launch at 1.15pm UK time from the European Space Agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, a French territory on the northeast coast of South America

Projects to develop space centers that can launch satellites into Earth's orbit are sprouting up around Europe, amid the soaring popularity of small rockets and the commercialization of space. By the end of this year, Spanish start-up PLD Space expects to launch its Miura-1 mini-rocket from the El Arenosillo site…

Russia's space agency Roskosmos is suspending cooperation with Europe on space launches from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana in response to Western sanctions over Ukraine, Roskosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said on Saturday.