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2 days ago by mike

July 2, 2009 Reuters By Laurent Marot CAYENNE, French Guiana, July 1 (Reuters) - An Ariane rocket has launched from French Guiana on Wednesday the TerreStar-1 satellite, billed by the Arianespace rocket launch company as “the largest commercial communications satellite ever launched”. TerreStar blas ...

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11 days ago by dom

In the late ’70s, British football club West Bromwich Albion had the most exciting team in English football… They played a trio of black players which they called the Three Degrees (named after the a female Philly vocal group); the late Laurie Cunningham, Cyrille Regis and Brendon Batson. Two of the ...

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16 days ago by Joel Raupe

Construction of the new Soyuz launch facility at the Guiana Space Centre (Centre Spatial Guyanais – CSG), Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Wide-angle view of the almost-complete Soyuz launch system. The four primary support arms are shown in their closed position, when they form a support ring a ...

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17 days ago by Sue Marek

TerreStar Networks, which is planning an all-IP integrated satellite terrestrial network in North America, will launch the TerreStar-1 satellite July 1. The satellite has arrived in French Guiana and is being prepared for launch aboard Arianespace's Ariane 5 heavy lift launch vehicle. TerreStar-1 wa ...

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27 days ago by planetcity1

© Erick Loitière #mce_temp_url# From the photographer’s notes: Canon EF 17-40 f/4 L (21mm@f/22) | ISO 100 | 15 sec. | Singh-Ray reversed GND3 filter | Lee ND6 filter | Lee 105mm polarizer filter. Posted in art, life, philosophy, photography, travel Tagged: art, Beach of Bourda, Cayenne, celebration, ...

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42 days ago by Doug Messier

Russian rockets readied for South America launch AFP The maker of Russia’s Soyuz rockets said on Thursday it had finished building the first rockets due to be launched from South America pad in cooperation with the European Space Agency. “The first two rockets are ready. They have got through all th ...

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50 days ago by fhsukams

Ariane 5 lifts off with Herschel and Planck on board. Image Credit: ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) launched two telescopes, the Herschel and Planck, into orbit yesterday aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. The Herschel Telescope, a powerful infrared telescope,will explore the developm ...

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51 days ago by Chris Guillebeau

After arriving in Paramaribo, Suriname on a long overland journey from Guyana, I was tired. The week before I had been in Haiti, relearning humility thanks to missionaries and mosquitoes. The missionaries I liked, the mosquitoes, not so much – but as I tell myself from time to time, it’s all part of ...

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52 days ago by ivetteromero

Guadeloupean singer Tanya Saint-Val appears tomorrow night, May 14, in her first real concert in French Guiana. She is slated to sing her specialty, zouk and romantic ballads. The concert has been described as a real Antillean-Guyanese melting pot, featuring the bass player Frédéric Caracas, the wri ...

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