Space Transportation Launchers Exploitation Accompaniment Programme

Our work ensures that Europe’s ground infrastructure can launch more and support future missions. This infrastructure is as strategic as the rockets themselves and will be upgraded and maintained over the next years and includes elements outside of the launch zone such as test facilities, and support facilities.

Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana remains central to guaranteeing European access to space. To maintain and strengthen this position, maintenance and upgrades this decade will reinforce versatility, cyber-security, sustainability, and resilience of the Spaceport. These include upgrades to service facilities for launch campaigns and returns to Earth such as payload processing facilities, telemetry stations, control centres, weather stations, fire stations, as well as infrastructure and logistics.

By investing in both launch systems and the ground infrastructure that supports them, Europe ensures a reliable, competitive, and autonomous space transportation capability for the future.