France From Space
Before you continue.Engadget is now part of the.We (Verizon Media) and our partners need your consent to access your device, set cookies, and use your data, including your location, to understand your interests, provide relevant ads and measure their effectiveness.Verizon Media will also provide relevant ads to you on our partners' products.How Verizon Media and our partners bring you better ad experiencesTo give you a better overall experience, we want to provide relevant ads that are more useful to you. For example, when you search for a film, we use your search information and location to show the most relevant cinemas near you. We also use this information to show you ads for similar films you may like in the future. Like Verizon Media, our partners may also show you ads that they think match your interests.Learn more about how and how our.Select 'OK' to allow Verizon Media and our partners to use your data, or 'Manage options' to review our partners and your choices.Tip: to save these choices and avoid repeating this across devices.You can always update your preferences in the.
Space rocket imagined on a, ordered by and drawn by, 1664.Space travel has long been a significant ambition in. From the ' 1664 tapestry representing a space rocket, to 's 1865 novel and ' 1902 movie, space and were present in French society long before the technological means appeared to allow the development of a space exploration program.During the late 18th century, and the are seen as worldwide precursors and explorers of, with the world record altitude then reached by a human at 7,016 metres (23,018 ft) performed by in 1804. Those names, their numerous students and their works will mark the early expertise of France's space program in all types of air balloons since. Ariane rocket at, ParisThe rocket family is France's own launcher family, which use has been extended to the whole of ESA's member countries.Its spaceport, near, was selected in 1964 to host all of France's launches.
France From Space
Later, it was selected as ESA's launch site. Before being in, France's space launches were made from, in and.The French space program thus benefits from the best ground position for launch sites on Earth, as its position 5.3° north of the allows rockets to gain propulsion from the spinning of the Earth when launched eastward (+460 m/s) and save on propellant. No other governmental launch sites allow this level of physical parameters. It is also able to launch satellites into from this spaceport.Launch statistics As of 2017, Kourou counts amongst the spaceports with the highest percentage of successful launches, both successive and overall.
France Space Exploration
Thomas J. Cashman. Here is a chronology of all orbital launches from the Kourou spaceport since 1970, under the French and European space programmes.Flights by launcher. This section needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.