#Guiana Space Center

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On December 25, 2021, NASA and the European Space Agency launched the largest, most powerful telescope ever, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope. It returned its first full-color images some six months later after testing several calibrations.

"Liftoff from a tropical rainforest to the edge of time itself," a NASA announcer said as the Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.

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YPSat looks back to Earth from atop Ariane 6 by European Space Agency Via Flickr: An image of Earth acquired by the ESA Young Professionals Satellite payload, YPSat, attached to the upper stage of the inaugural Ariane 6 rocket, launched on 9 July 2024. The YPSat project represents the culmination of about two and a half years of dedication and hard work core team of about 30 Young Professionals from various ESA Establishments, Directorates and disciplines. Sacrificing their spare time, they shouldered the entire responsibility of designing, building and testing the payload before finally witnessing its successful launch. Learn more. Credits: ESA-YPSat

[simonh]

Ariane 6 first liftoff by European Space Agency Via Flickr: Europe’s new rocket Ariane 6 powered Europe into space taking with it a varied selection of experiments, satellites, payload deployers and reentry demonstrations that represent thousands across Europe, from students to industry and experienced space actors. This inaugural flight, designated VA262, is a demonstration flight to show the capabilities and prowess of Ariane 6 in escaping Earth's gravity and operating in space. Nevertheless, it had several passengers on board. Ariane 6 was built by prime contractor and design authority ArianeGroup. In addition to the rocket, the liftoff demonstrated the functioning of the launch pad and operations on ground at Europe's Spaceport. The new custom-built dedicated launch zone was built by France's space agency CNES and allows for a faster turnover of Ariane launches. Ariane 6 is Europe’s newest heavy-lift rocket, designed to provide great power and flexibility at a lower cost than its predecessors. The launcher’s configuration – with an upgraded main stage, a choice of either two or four powerful boosters and a new restartable upper stage – will provide Europe with greater efficiency and possibility as it can launch multiple missions into different orbits on a single flight, while its upper stage will deorbit itself at the end of mission. ESA’s main roles in the Ariane 6 programme is as contracting authority – managing the budget from Member States participating in the Ariane 6 development programme; and as launch system architect – ensuring that the rocket and launch pad infrastructure work together. Ariane 6 is the latest in Europe's Ariane rocket series, taking over from Ariane 5 featuring a modular and versatile design that can launch missions from low-Earth orbit and farther out to deep space. Credits: ESA - M. Pédoussaut

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Ariane 5 rocket bids adieu after 27 years of service

The final launch of the Ariane 5 rocket. Credit: Arianespace Nearly three decades after its debut launch, Europe’s workhorse Ariane 5 rocket has taken to the skies one last time, carrying a pair of communications satellites bound for geostationary orbit. Continue reading Untitled

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If you have any fun facts about the French Guiana, please share and I’ll reblog it!

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How is it that a small wedge of the South American continent, long claimed by a major European power and still administered by it, could present a profile of wilderness at the end of the twentieth century? How might this same location on the globe have proved useful for such an unlikely combination of purposes as the resettlement of convicted criminals and the launching of rockets?

French Guiana remains a remarkably insignificant artifact of the political landscape - rarely noticed by most of France, let alone anyone else - as well as one of the least settled regions of the world. It has also hosted two exceptional experiments of the French state: the historical penal colony known in English as “Devil's Island,” which operated between 1852 and 1946, and the contemporary space center that launches the European consortium rocket Ariane, responsible for transporting a good half of the commercial satellites orbiting our globe. [...] Its base, the Guiana Space Center (CSG), indeed lived up to its slogan, becoming “Europe's Spaceport,” a center of high technology near the equator. [...]

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[T]he penal colony begins operation in the middle of the nineteenth century, partly as a substitute for a system of plantation slavery. It conceives of French Guiana as open land for agricultural settlement, fertile ground for a tropical - and French - Australia, where the action of moral reform can translate into a scheme of colonization. [...] [T]hese early hopes are belied by the high mortality of the convicts [...]. Despite periodic calls for reform and increasing international discomfort, the bagne lasts through World War II. It leaves a deep mark on French Guiana, in both symbolic and material terms. As the movement of seventy thousand exiles progresses, the surrounding landscape shifts from a luxuriant field of dreams into a tableau of terror. At the same time, the colony as a whole grows accustomed to the presence of this artificial prison world within it [...].

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The space center begins operation in the second half of the twentieth century, in the midst of the Space Race and in the aftermath of the Algerian War. It conceives of French Guiana as open land for technical experiments and a gateway into equatorial orbit, an even more tropical - and French - Cape Canaveral. [...] [A] regular stream of technicians and engineers arrives to assemble and guide it into space. The initial mandate to provide France with a launch site expands into a focus on commercial satellites, and although local opposition to the project continues, the effects of the enterprise on French Guiana in both symbolic and material terms only deepen. As the Ariane rocket gains importance, the surrounding landscape transforms from an orphan of history into a handmaiden of the future. At the same time, the department grows accustomed to an increased infusion of consumer goods, technical personnel, and [...] a new island with an artificial environment and a powerfully altered social profile.

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At slightly closer range a number of striking structural similarities emerge. Not only do both projects found towns (St. Laurent on the one hand and the new Kourou on the other), but both operate as rival poles of influence and authority relative to the civil administration of French Guiana. Each involves [...] its own hierarchies, its own links to bureaucratic networks in Paris, and its own claims to significant national French interests. Each [...] exerts considerable influence over the surrounding economy. Most crucially, each controls and orders a separate territory within the larger political entity; each has a spatial presence, a direct impact on the landscape. And tied to this spatial strategy, each comes to serve as a symbolic nexus in collective Metropolitan imagination. [...] One employs leftover forces of law and order, whereas the other employs highly trained technical personnel; thus [...] both [...] have ties to the military [...]. The penal colony imports the unwanted of France, whereas the space center imports the selected few. [...]

And the bagne reflects visions of an ancient underworld, whereas Ariane reflects visions of a new overworld. [...]

Many of the specific additional attributes of a desirable site for penal colonization (distance from the Metropole, possibility of confinement and surveillance, and prevention of local disturbance) find echoes in the specific additional attributes of a desirable site for launching rockets (distance from the Metropole, adequate security, adequate possibility of transport, and political stability).[...]

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The penal colony takes shape at a crucial moment in European colonial understandings of place and labor. Slavery had just been abolished in the French Empire, and an accompanying understanding of work in terms of race had far from expended its interpretive force. [...] Work represented the route to a better future, to the growth of new, valuable lands. [...] If slavery were at an end, then the crucial question facing the colony was that of finding an alternative source of labor. During the period of the early penal colony we see this search for new slaves, not only in French Guiana, but also throughout colonies built on the plantation model. Thousands of Asian Indians and Chinese found their way to new homes in different corners of the British Empire, serving as contract laborers on plantations. [...]

Kourou [the space center] is a neutralized, controlled corner of the tropics, with much of its cultural fabric simply imported. Amid the restricted space of artificially cooled buildings and automobiles, in zones free of carrier mosquitoes and amply supplied with wine and cheese airlifted from France, the distance between Paris and Cayenne shortens; the effects of translation between them grow less clear. If the island mimics the mainland successfully, if Crusoe builds a little England - or France - is his task done? [...] To answer this question, let us return to a crucial turning point of Guyane's history: the aftermath of World War II and the period of formal empire. It was during this era that the natural, political, and moral space of French Guiana was neutralized through a combination of DDT spraying, departmentalization, and the final closing of the penal colony. In 1949, a former teacher [...] in Martinique published an overview of the new overseas departments and territories. His description of French Guiana includes a call to arms for its development, a development still conceived in terms of a need for [...] agriculture, and industry [...]. Gold mines aside, it seems that the method of painstaking labor is the only one really applicable at present. Incontestably, there is magnificent work to accomplish there, such as should tempt young men fond of broad horizons and adventure. The appeal is for an army of Crusoes, advancing ashore to improve their collective island. The questions of race and level of expertise filter through patterns of history and perceived practicality. But the call remains, the call of a wilderness inviting domestication.

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All text above by: Peter Redfield. Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana. 2000. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[witchy667]

TW: TTI (troubled teen industry) treatment mentions along with brief mentions of abuse/addiction/SA

TDLR: I think the TTI treatment facilities I was locked up in for years of my childhood forcefully disconnected me from my wolf because I was literally in a medical cage as a “human” guinea pig. And I didn’t connect those dots till very recently.

Idek where to start this, word this, or express what I need to express; so please bear with me with.

My mother shipped me off to a residential treatment center in Montana cause she wanted to continue her drug and alcohol addiction at the time. (Ironically today she’s 6 years sober, I’m 22 for timeline context) I was 13 years old. This was my first placement and I was there for a year total. Spent my 14th birthday locked up. I had one pass to the outside world that whole entire time. I will say this was the “least” traumatic placement I was in, but I was also literally SAed by a male nurse there along with this program also incorporated wilderness therapy, which I don’t wanna specify to much. After I FINALLY “graduated” that “program” I was shipped to a “step down facility”before I could be considered stable enough to go home. I was in this facility for about 8-10 months total before I lost my fucking mind and did some stuff I’m not proud of to get forcefully kicked out. But I genuinely didn’t know what else to do. I also didn’t have any parental contact during this time, and even at the second placement I hadn’t seen my mom at all, not once. No visits. After I got kicked out of that program I was sent to another where I was there for about 5-6 months. The last two programs I were in absolutely ruined my mind and my life. I felt like a Guiana pig being poked, prodded, restrained, sedated, treated like I’m a waste of space and a burden, overly medicated and more things ngl. I literally was in a CAGE. They had me on 900mg of Seroquel, the legal max for an adult (in the us) is 800mg and 600mg for kids. ✨ There’s so much more but this is genuinely so hard to talk about, I’m sorry if this makes no sense.

After I got back to the outs after the last treatment center I didn’t even feel real, and definitely not human. I felt numb, surreal and angry. I was in a constant state of survival mode; disassociation to survive; as my mom was still on drugs and alcohol when I got out. And I def have PTSD from those places, but with my self discovery journey as of late. It made me realize I believe that’s when the start of my broken connection formed. I was forcefully disconnected from everything, including humanity, for 2.5 years straight. And I didn’t know how to exist without that disconnection cause of how forced it was for so long. Ffs I still have severe time anxiety and will have a panic attack if I can’t figure out the time immediately cause the only thing that kept my sanity those years was the clock and the time.

Long story short, coming to terms with some of my trauma has made a gigantic connect the dots to my wolfishness. And it’s terrifying and validating, makes me scared and excited, but also makes me feel thankful that I’ve always been me no matter how hard everyone tried to beat it out of me or treat it out of me. I will always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS BE A FUCKING WOLF.

And I’m not ashamed to say I always have been anymore.

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Sentinel-2C operators complete final rehearsals

A quiet atmosphere pervades ESOC's Main Control Room. The operations team is in the process of placing a satellite into orbit. We are one minute away from passing over one ground station and the tension is rising as we eagerly wait to receive the first telemetry from the satellite.

Then, suddenly, an alarm is triggered, the light changes color and crackling sounds can be heard. A fire has broken out in the room. The evacuation is ordered. The control room must be abandoned, and the satellite operations relocated to an adjoining room.

This was just a simulation of what could happen during a satellite's first and most critical moments in space. To ensure a smooth start to operations, the control team must consider every possible scenario, whether it happens in space or on the ground—such as a fire alarm.

This summer, as the launch of the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite approaches, the control team located at ESOC, ESA's operations center in Germany, has been performing a crucial phase of the launch preparation, reviewing and revising the satellite's and ground segment's plans and procedures to guarantee the success of the mission.

This "team of teams" effort involved more than 40 engineers and scientists—working on the ground segment, flight dynamics, software and networks—all ready to assume control of the satellite following lift off.

After weeks and weeks of simulations, the team has completed this phase and is now fully prepared for the launch and deployment of the European Commission's latest Earth observation mission, to be lifted into orbit by a Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on 4 September at 03:50 CEST.

"This is not the first Sentinel mission we operate here at ESOC. Our experience has helped us standardize our approach so that we are able to test ourselves on the widest range of anomalies while still facing the most challenging situations," says Franco Marchese, Flight Operations Director for Sentinel-2C.

"One of our main challenges has been the knowledge transfer to the partially new team, as the previous models of Sentinel-2 were launched more than seven years ago," says Pete Collins, Deputy Flight Operations Director for Sentinel-2C.

"Our team has been flying Sentinel satellites and performing routine operations, including the A and B models of Sentinel-2, but putting a spacecraft into orbit is always a complex phase with its own unique challenges. We have prepared very well and have achieved this in a relatively short time."

'Like throwing monsters at the operators'

From a room in the basement, the true conductors of the simulation campaign, the simulation officers lead by aerospace engineer Gustavo Bardo Carvalho, are running the show and they always have more than one string to their bow.

"The role of this exercise is to test the team's capabilities to detect problems, adapt their timeline and, more generally, adapt to the scenario under stress and time pressure," explains Gustavo. "It feels like setting up a role-playing game. We confront the team with 'monsters'—in this case, anomalies of minor or major magnitude—and let them come up with solutions, think outside the box, have creative ideas, and learn from their mistakes."

From the simulations room, where flight data is simulated and fed to the control room, Gustavo and his team have been challenging the Sentinel-2C control team with an exhaustive list of issues to solve, from errors injected in the data, to the loss of ground stations, absence of team members (simulated sickness), and instrument and transmission failures.

Some are common and anticipated, others require the mission control team to brainstorm and exercise the communication between many multidisciplinary teams, such as the flight control team, industry partners, flight dynamics, the ESA space debris office, mission control system software and the ground stations.

"We made sure to not necessarily give a clear solution. Just like in real life, sometimes the best response is just to try to avoid the worst consequences, and we always remind them that reality can be much nastier than any simulation we may invent."

Some exceptional scenarios were also included to force the team to adapt without their usual equipment and deviate totally from the nominal timeline, such as space debris hazards, disruptions resulting from the solar wind or the evacuation of the control room.

"Recently, we simulated a space debris collision alert which required the team to make the satellite ready to engage in a collision avoidance maneuver. This meant skipping the usual steps and commissioning the satellite as early as possible."

On top of testing their technical knowledge, the simulation campaign plays a role in building the team.

"There are many events that can harm the team spirit: from people being sick to managers being rude or non-cooperative. We tried to simulate these moments to test the nerves of the team and make them more resilient."

Dress rehearsal

Lastly, teams at ESOC worked with the joint ESA, Arianespace and industry launch team in Kourou to complete the comprehensive final simulation of the countdown and launch sequence.

During the rehearsal, the mission control team received live signals from the satellite via an umbilical connection that will be disconnected shortly before launch. With this last step completed, the mission control team is now ready to launch the satellite.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.13 (after 1940)

1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. 1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences. 1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game. 1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls. 1955 – Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy. 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. 1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. 1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. 1975 – Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York. 1978 – Hilton bombing: A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. 1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. 1983 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people. 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. 1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed. 1996 – The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre). 2001 – An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944. 2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. 2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. 2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. 2021 – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial. 2021 – A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.

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Since the European Space Agency launched NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana, on Christmas Day, 2021, the telescope has hovered in space about a million miles from Earth. During its voyage, the J.W.S.T. unfolded like a piece of origami, releasing an array of solar panels, a powerful antenna, a honeycomb of golden mirrors, and a sunshield that looks like a set of silver sails. Scientists then spent more than three months aligning its mirrors with nanometre precision. About a year after the telescope released its first images, Jane Rigby, the top NASA scientist working on the project, told me that it has “performed not only better than requirements but better than we could have possibly dreamed.” Recently, the Webb helped to show that galaxies in the first billion years of the universe were more active than previously thought, forming lots of stars in big bursts. “There were predictions, but this was terra incognita, past the cliff of what Hubble could do, and expectations were all over the map,” Rigby told me. “Where we had ignorance, we now have beautiful data.” Recently, in celebration of the telescope’s first year of science operations, the Webb team published an anniversary image of stars being born in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the stellar nursery closest to Earth.

The first telescopes were made of two pieces of rounded glass in a tube. Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter’s moons, and thus showed that the Earth was not the center of the universe, with a telescope that could magnify twenty times. Six decades later, Isaac Newton completed the first successful reflecting telescope, using a concave mirror that concentrated light much more efficiently. Over the centuries, telescopes have grown and improved enough to spot increasingly faint and faraway celestial objects. The Webb represents a culmination of this progression. It is a hundred times as powerful as the Hubble Space Telescope and sees infrared light that is invisible to the human eye. (Light falls on a spectrum from longer wavelengths to shorter wavelengths: infrared, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, ultraviolet.) It was designed, in part, to gather light that has been travelling to Earth since shortly after the Big Bang. When astronomers point its mirror toward the edges of space, it sees the universe as it was thirteen billion years ago—close to the literal dawn of time.

Rigby works at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, and has been part of the James Webb Space Telescope team since 2010, as an astrophysicist and, since June, as the J.W.S.T.’s senior project scientist. We spoke via video chat during her lunch break; while I asked her questions, she jabbed a fork into a Tupperware that she had brought from home, and then chewed thoughtfully as she considered her answers. She is an animated storyteller, often punctuating her points with hand gestures and minor adjustments to her black horn-rimmed glasses. I asked her about the telescope’s peculiar design, the ways that astronomy shapes our everyday lives, and the gaps in human knowledge which the Webb has already started to fill in. Our conversation has been edited and condensed.

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NASA CubeSat Launches as Rideshare on ESAs First Ariane 6 Rocket

NASA launched CURIE (CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment) as a rideshare payload on the inaugural flight of ESA’s (European Space Agency) Ariane 6 rocket, which launched at 4 p.m. GFT on July 9 from Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, in French Guiana. Designed by a team from the University of California, Berkeley, CURIE […] from NASA https://ift.tt/RChDgEX

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Space Launch Services Market: Intense Competition and Cost Pressures Drive Innovation

Intense competition, cost pressures, and the need for innovative technologies are the factors driving market in the forecast period 2024-2028

According to TechSci Research report, “Space Launch Services Market – Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Competition Forecast & Opportunities, 2028”, the Global Space Launch Services Market stood at USD 8.73 Billion in 2022 and is anticipated to grow with a CAGR of 7.44% in the forecast period, 2024-2028The Global Space Launch Services Market is a dynamic and vital component of the space industry, serving as the gateway to accessing space for various missions and payloads. It encompasses a wide range of launch providers, technologies, and services that enable the deployment of satellites, scientific instruments, interplanetary probes, and more. This market is characterized by its adaptability to cater to the diverse needs of commercial, government, and scientific customers, with a strong emphasis on reliability, cost-efficiency, and innovation.

The market is experiencing a transformation driven by the influx of private space companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, challenging traditional space agencies and offering competitive launch services. These companies are pioneering reusable launch technologies, reducing launch costs, and fostering an environment of innovation and cost-efficiency. Additionally, the market's growth is significantly influenced by the small satellite revolution, as miniaturized satellites for Earth observation, global connectivity, and scientific research create a surge in demand for dedicated and rideshare missions.

Environmental considerations and space debris mitigation are increasingly important in the market. Launch providers are under pressure to adhere to strict environmental regulations and contribute to responsible space activities. As a result, they are developing eco-friendly propulsion technologies and minimizing their environmental footprint to ensure sustainable and long-term operations. Geopolitical factors and government policies play a significant role in shaping the market. Changes in export controls, international relations, and space regulations can impact market dynamics and customer relationships, introducing an element of unpredictability.

The market is further diversified by its capability to support a wide range of orbit types, including Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), and Geostationary Orbit (GEO), catering to diverse missions, from Earth observation to deep space exploration. In summary, the Global Space Launch Services Market is characterized by a competitive landscape driven by private space companies, a growing demand for small satellite launches, sustainability considerations, and the influence of geopolitical factors. It continues to adapt to meet the evolving needs of the space industry, supporting missions that range from satellite deployments to lunar exploration and beyond.

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North America: North America, particularly the United States, stands as a global leader in the space launch sector. The region hosts a plethora of launch providers, with SpaceX, United Launch Alliance (ULA), and Northrop Grumman being key players. It is home to iconic launch facilities such as the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex. North America's dominance is evident in its strong presence in commercial, government, and military space programs. The presence of private space companies like Blue Origin further reinforces the region's position as a leader in the market.

Europe: Europe is a notable region in the market, anchored by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace. The Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana is a prime launch site, offering equatorial launch advantages for satellites deploying into geostationary orbit. European launch providers are recognized for their reliability and serve both commercial and government clients. Europe is also expanding its role in interplanetary missions and lunar exploration.

Asia-Pacific: The Asia-Pacific region is witnessing remarkable growth in space launch activities, with China's CNSA making significant strides. China has developed its launch capabilities and actively participates in lunar exploration and Mars missions. India's ISRO also contributes to the region's growth by launching satellites for Earth observation and communication. Moreover, the presence of private launch providers, such as Rocket Lab in New Zealand, adds to the region's appeal.

Russia: Russia maintains its significance in the market, especially in launching heavy payloads into space. The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan serves as a key spaceport for Russian launches. Despite increasing competition, Russia retains its market share through reliable and cost-effective launch services.

Middle East and Africa: The Middle East, led by the UAE, is emerging as a new player in the space launch sector. The UAE has established the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre and launched Mars missions, expanding its presence in the market. Africa, though in the early stages of space development, presents growth opportunities for the future.

South America: South America is a significant player in the market, primarily due to the Guiana Space Centre. This spaceport, operated by Arianespace, is a desirable choice for international customers seeking reliable and precise satellite deployments into geostationary orbit.

These regional insights highlight the global nature of the space launch industry, with multiple regions contributing to its vibrancy. Each region's competitive landscape, regulatory environment, and strategic partnerships influence the market's growth and shape its trajectory. As the space industry continues to evolve, regional dynamics will play a critical role in determining the industry's future.

Major companies operating in Global Space Launch Services Market are:

Antrix Corporation Limited

International Launch Services Inc.

Arianespace

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Eurockot Launch Services

ISC Kosmotras

China Great Wall Industry Corporation

Orbital ATK

SpaceX

US Spaceflight Industries, Inc.

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[projectourworld]

Silence for the snake show by Hadrien Lalagüe, France. Winner, behaviour: birds

Hadrien Lalagüe is rewarded for his patience with a perfect alignment of grey-winged trumpeters watching a boa slither past. Hadrien set up his camera trap by a track in the rainforest surrounding Guiana Space Center. He spent the next six months maintaining the camera kit against high humidity, plastic-munching ants and damage by poachers. This image was his reward. Trumpeters – named for their loud calls – spend most of their time foraging on the forest floor, eating ripe fruits, insects and the occasional small snake. The boa constrictor, more than 3 metres (9.8ft) long, could have made a meal of them. Location: Guiana Space Center, between Kourou and Sinnamary, French Guiana

Photograph: Hadrien Lalagüe/2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year /Courtesy: Guardian Newspaper #snake #show #boaconstrictor