e2v Image Sensors Launched Into Space on Board Vietnam's First Optical Earth Observation Satellite TOKYO--(Marketwired - Jun 18, 2013) - On 7th May 2013, e2v high performance image sensors were launched into space on-board Vietnam's first optical Earth observation satellite, the Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster Monitoring Satellite (VNRED Sat-1). The satellite was carried into orbit from French Guiana by VERTA 1, the second Vega launcher.
June 19, 2013 - Marketwire
Jean-Jacques Dordain in AFP The mobile gantry should have been integrated now, meaning that the first launch of Soyuz from French Guiana will take place now in the first weeks of 2010 instead of the end of 2009,Dordain said.
Florent Malouda in The Guardian Piquionne's father is a policeman in French Guiana,said Malouda, "and it's a small country, everyone knows each other. Life is really strange. When my brother played for Paris FC, I went to see him after the season and he was playing...
Evelyn Waugh in Independent And if you want any more reasons to go there, then, as Waugh wrote, "But why British Guiana? I was at difficulties to find an answer, except that I was going because I knew so little."