Guiana Space Centre
The Guiana Space Centre, also called Europe's Spaceport, is a 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 because of its equatorial location and open sea to the east. The European Space Agency, the French space agency CNES, and the commercial companies Arianespace and Azercosmos conduct launches from Kourou. It was used by the ESA to send supplies to the International Space Station using the Automated Transfer Vehicle.
