European Space Centre - Kourou [French Guiana]

The Centre at Kourou is the ESA (European Space Agency) launch base. It was founded in 1975, and 15 countries are involved along with a staff of 1,850 people. The Centre has a surface area of 96,000 hectares with 1,400 employees. ESA's greatest success was Ariane 4 which from 1985 to 2003 was launched 113 times and represented 50% of the global market of commercial launches. Starting from 2007 the Kouros space port will also be used by the Russians for the launch of thee Soyuz.

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The more than one hundred central air handling units have a capacity that varies from 2,000 to 50,000 m³/hour. The 200 mounted fan coils are the skirted FCX and ducted LFC types.