Guiana Space Center | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-27

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:01:50 1 Facilities
00:04:05 1.1 ELV / ELA-1 / BEC
00:05:24 1.2 ELA-2
00:05:54 1.3 ELA-3
00:06:32 1.4 ELA-4
00:07:07 1.5 ELS / Soyuz at CSG
00:09:43 1.6 Final assembly building
00:10:24 2 Launches
00:10:33 2.1 Launch safety
00:11:36 2.2 Early launches
00:12:04 2.3 Recent launches
00:17:02 2.4 Future launches
00:17:19 3 Launch statistics
00:17:48 3.1 Flights by launcher
00:17:57 3.2 Flights by mission outcome
00:18:26 4 See also



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The Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) ) is a French and European spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana, France. 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: 
Guyana is 

near the equator, so that less energy is required to maneuver a spacecraft into an equatorial, geostationary orbit, and
it has open sea to the east, so that lower stages of rockets and debris from launch failures are unlikely to fall on human habitations. Rockets launch to the east to take advantage of the angular momentum provided by Earth's rotation.The European Space Agency (ESA), the French space agency CNES (National Centre for Space Studies), and the commercial companies Arianespace and Azercosmos conduct launches from Kourou. This was the spaceport used by the ESA to send supplies to the International Space Station using the Automated Transfer Vehicle.
The location was selected in 1964 to become the spaceport of France.
In 1975, France offered to share Kourou with ESA. Commercial launches are bought also by non-European companies. ESA pays two thirds of the spaceport's annual budget and has also financed the upgrades made during the development of the Ariane launchers.
On 4 April 2017, the centre was occupied by 30 labour union leaders in the midst of the 2017 social unrest in French Guiana, but was taken back on April 24, 2017.