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Museums Attractions In Roura

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Roura is a commune of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America.
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  • 1. Kourou Space Centre (Centre Spatial Guyanais) Kourou
    The Guiana Space Centre or, more commonly, Centre Spatial Guyanais 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: it 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 , the French space agency CNES , and the commercial companies Arianespace and Azercosmos conduct launches ...
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