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Kourou

Second-largest town of French Guiana, northwest of Cayenne, site of the Centre Spatial Guyanais (Guianese Space Centre) of the European Space Agency (ESA); population (2005 est) 27,000 (14% of the total population of French Guiana). ESA launches have included SMART-1 on 27 September 2003, a flight to orbit the Moon, and Rosetta on 2 March 2004, a mission to land on a comet.

Situated near the Equator, it is an ideal site for launches of satellites into geostationary orbit.

Kourou

River in French Guiana.



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