The starting point of a brand new
chapter in the European space adventure.
French Guiana's equatorial forest will become the site of all the
infrastructures necessary for Soyuz, including workshops, a railway for
bringing the rockets to the new launch pad which will be similar to theone here at the Cosmodrome in Baikonour Kazakhstan.
The advantage of launching Soyuz from the Kourou spaceport is that it is closer to the Equator than Baikonour. In fact the russian rocket will be able to carry double
the weight.

2617 Soyuz in Kourou
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A military convoy in the heart of the French Guianan Equatorial forest on its
way to the proposed new launch site of Soyuz. The starting point of a brand new
chapter in the European space adventure. That's Space on Euronews, this week.
A road, apparently without end passes through the Kazakhstan Steppe lands.
11,000 kilometers away, a dirt track in French Guiana. Two distant places
linked by the soyuz rocket and Europe's quest to explore Space.
EuroCommissaire - ESA director- Russian representative
February this year at Sinnamary, not far from the Europe's Spaceport based at Kourou in French Guiana. Those heading the Soyuz Project in Kourou discuss the future launch site of the Russian rocket.
This part of French Guiana's equatorial forest will become the site of all the
infrastructures necessary for Soyuz, including workshops, a railway for
bringing the rockets to the new launch pad which will be similar to theone here
at the Cosmo