abstract:The Guiana Space Centre or, more commonly, Centre spatial guyanais (CSG) is a French and European spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. Operational since 1968, it is particularly suitable as a location for a spaceport as it fulfills the two major geographical requirements of such a site:
Denseequatorialforests, colonialtowns and amajorspacecentre are among the faces of French Guiana, a region of France on the North-East coast of South America.