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Not ‘Manifest’ but an ‘Inclusive’ Destiny: A Case for Decolonizing Space Exploration
E-International Relations
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May 12, 2025
Scientists, scholars, and space enthusiasts have long envisioned humans traveling to distant galaxies and settling on different planets, making space exploration a subject of much interest to scientists and social scientists. The technological...
Story Science & Exploration Envision factsheet 22198 views 67 likes Read
ESA
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Science & Exploration 21883 views 67 likes Overview of the Envision mission Envision at Venus Name: Envision Planned launch: November 2031 Mission: Understanding why Earth’s closest neighbour, Venus, is so different Status: In development. On 28...
The little-known region 4,600 miles from Brussels that's part of the EU and uses the euro
Daily Express
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February 25, 2025
Tucked away on the northeastern coast of South America lies French Guiana, a place that defies geographic expectations. While it sits between Brazil and Suriname, this overseas territory is not an independent country, it’s actually part of France...
ESA's Biomass satellite readies for April launch
Military & Aerospace Electronics
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February 26, 2025
TOULOUSE, France - Airbus in Toulouse, France, announced that Biomass, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) satellite, has left Toulouse for its journey by ship to Kourou, French Guiana, where it is poised for launch. Biomass, an Earth Explorer...
Picture of the day: Packing Biomass, to measure forests
Electronics Weekly
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February 25, 2025
In this picture an Airbus-built forest measuring satellite, Biomass, is getting ready for shipment. From Toulouse, it will travel to the EU's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana... Biomass Biomass is ESA's flagship mission to measure forest...
Arianespace ‘postpones’ Ariane 6 launch of French CSO-3 with operations underway
SatNews
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February 21, 2025
Due to further operations needed on a ground means, the launch initially planned on February 26 from Kourou, French Guiana, is postponed. The new launch date will be announced following the completion of these operations. Ariane 6 and its...
PLD Space expands with its 2nd spaceport Etlaq globally in Oman
GCC Business News
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February 21, 2025
PLD Space, an international space services company, is launching its second global base for MIURA launch vehicle family, the Etlaq spaceport, in Oman. This infrastructure joins the company’s Launch Complex at the CSG (Kourou, French Guiana), owned...
Zara Lachlan Rows Solo from Europe to South America
NewsForKids.net
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February 19, 2025
NFK Editors - February 19, 2025 Cayenne, French Guiana —(Map) On Saturday, February 1, Zara Lachlan became the first woman – and the youngest person – to row from mainland Europe to mainland South America by herself without support. She completed...
Europe’s Failed Mission to Space
Foreign Policy
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May 5, 2025
On March 30, a German start-up launched a rocket designed to place small satellites into orbit from Europe. Taking off from Norway’s Andøya spaceport above the Arctic Circle, it was the first-ever attempt to reach orbit from anywhere in Europe...
European rocket successfully carries out first commercial mission
Space Travel
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European rocket successfully carries out first commercial mission By Florian Royer with Daniel Lawler in Paris Kourou (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully carried out its first commercial mission on Thursday, placing a...
Yes, I Attacked That Woman, And I’d Do It Again
Defector
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May 4, 2025
Let's get one thing straight: We eagles obey no courts of law. We heed no judges. We've never even heard of the concept that you call "police." So however many times you try to tell me that everything I say can and will be used against me in a...
Air France Increases Tahiti Service For Christmas & New Year's
Simple Flying
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May 3, 2025
Air France has scheduled additional frequencies between Paris and Tahiti, with the island-serving flights stopping in Los Angeles, the United States. The flights, operated by Airbus A350-900, will go from five weekly to daily during the holiday...
Arianespace’s Ariane 6 to launch the French Defense Procurement and Technology Agency’s CSO-3 satellite
SatNews
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January 30, 2025
On February 26, 2025 at 1:24 p.m. local time (4:24 p.m. UTC, 5:24 p.m. CET), Arianespace will launch the CSO-3 satellite with Ariane 6 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The mission, called VA263, will be the first commercial flight...
I won five trophies at Chelsea – now I’ve joined the army to help teach others
Football London
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January 22, 2025
Former Chelsea star Florent Malouda has revealed he is now sharing his resilience and determination with the army. The 2012 Champions League-winner has joined the military in French Guiana, his birthplace, after a successful football career that...
Airbus-Built Forest Monitoring Satellite Successfully Launched
Design and Development Today - Wisconsin
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April 29, 2025
The Airbus built forest monitoring satellite Biomass has been successfully launched into orbit. A European Space Agency (ESA) flagship mission, Biomass will use its P-band synthetic aperture radar instrument to measure forest biomass to assess...
Record Six Rockets Launched In Under 18 Hours Around The World
NDTV
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May 1, 2025
Six rockets lifted off from launchpads across the globe in under 18 hours between Monday and Tuesday. The tightly packed schedule saw successful missions by major players such as SpaceX, Amazon, and international space agencies, with five of them...
6 rockets launched in less than 24 hours! SpaceX and Amazon’s Project Kuiper drive new spaceflight record
The Times of India
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6 rockets launched in less than 24 hours In an unprecedented surge of space activity, six rockets lifted off from various global launch sites within a span of just 18 hours between April 28 and 29, 2025. This rapid-fire succession of launches set...
European Space Agency launched Biomass satellite to monitor forests and climatic studies
The Times of India
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Earth's forests are pivotal to keeping our planet habitable. Freely referred to as the "lungs of the Earth," they blanket about one-third of the globe and have a significant function to play in modifying the weather. Forests also take in enormous...
ESA’s Biomass satellite launches to track global forest health and carbon storage
Innovation News Network
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April 30, 2025
The innovative Biomass mission will deliver unprecedented data on forest structure and carbon storage – crucial information for tracking deforestation, understanding Earth’s carbon cycle, and addressing the global climate crisis. The satellite...
The satellite that will ‘weigh’ world’s 1.5 trillion trees
Daily News
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April 30, 2025
43 The world’s rainforests are often referred to as the “lungs of the earth”. They store billions of tonnes of carbon and in doing so help to reduce the impacts of climate change. But with more than one and half trillion trees, measuring exactly...