French Guiana News

The world's largest commercial satellite was launched into space Wednesday, with a mission to provide phone service to cellular "dead zones" in North America.

Terrestar-1, the largest and most powerful commercial satellite to date, was successfully launched into geostationary orbit aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the spaceport in French Guiana.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. By The Associated Press The world's largest commercial satellite is in space, where it will provide phone service to cellular "dead zones" in North America.

A FRENCH Guiana court has jailed four church members for up to 12 years for the exorcism of an epileptic teenager who was found dead attached to a cross.

The launch of Russia's modernized Soyuz-ST carrier rocket from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana has been postponed until early 2010, the head of the Russian federal space agency, Anatoly Perminov, told reporters on Wednesday.

Ogilvy Entertainment, the brand content arm of Ogilvy Advertising, in association with independent production company, Devize, has entered into a collaboration with BBC World News to develop a new topical magazine series about space.

Activity is continuing at the Guiana Space Centre , Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, as the Soyuz launch site takes shape.

A contract has been signed at the Paris air show that will lead to the development of a remarkable spacecraft to test re-entry technologies.

A Russian Soyuz rocket takes off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan in May 2009.

SCOTLAND is about to enter the space race after creating its own satellite - in Maryhill.

A few days ago, the mobile phone boarding pass service was introduced on all flights to the French Overseas Departments .

Holidays are such an important part of each countries tradition along with supporting its culture.

Welcome to the second day of the Green Smoothie Cleanse . The coolest part about this cleanse being just three days is that come lunch time, you are more than half way through.

"I've always had a double identity," says Edward Mokolo, who raps, sings, and produces under the name Kaysha.

An Ariane 5 rocket carrying Europe's Herschel and Planck space telescopes has blasted off from Kourou in French Guiana.

Owners have shuttered nearly all gas stations on the French Caribbean island of Martinique to pressure the government to raise prices.

Britain is hoping to finally enter the space race today with the selection of its first ever official astronaut.

The European Space Agency is a collaboration between 18 European states with the simple aim of "exploring space" and yesterday they announced their first new recruits to the Astronaut Corps in more than a decade.

The vessel which was discovered off the coast off Berbice on Sunday is believed to be one that was abandoned after it capsized during a race from Senegal to French Guiana last month.

In a May 15 story about the launch of the Herschel telescope in the Ariane-5 rocket, The Associated Press erroneously reported it was the largest telescope ever.