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Guyana space launch base to re-open in May

Vega return to flight with SSMS (VV16) scheduled by the middle of June

Avio informs that CNES (the French Space Agency) and Arianespace have communicated yesterday the gradual re-opening of the Guyana Space Center, starting from the 11 of May. The space center in Kourou had been closed at the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak on the 16 of March 2020 (see AVIONEWS). At that point the operations for the 16th launch of Vega, scheduled by the end of the same month, had been freezed...

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Colleferro, Italy, 04/30/2020 07:56
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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