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Hasta la fecha, la ESA ha invertido m\u00e1s de 2.000 millones de euros en la mejora y el desarrollo del puerto espacial europeo de Kourou. La ESA es propietaria de las instalaciones de lanzamiento y de las plantas industriales. Adem\u00e1s, contribuye de manera sustancial a los costes fijos del puerto espacial europeo con el fin de garantizar su disponibilidad operativa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

El puerto espacial de Kourou se moderniza de manera constante con la incorporaci\u00f3n de nuevos lanzadores. Desde 1997, el puerto espacial ha sido utilizado principalmente por el cohete Ariane5, capaz de elevar grandes pesos. La zona de lanzamiento ELA-3 se ha ampliado para poder cargar combustible en las etapas superiores del Ariane-5 cuando el cohete se encuentra en la plataforma de despegue.<\/p>\n

Pronto se unir\u00e1n dos nuevos lanzadores al Ariane-5. Est\u00e1 previsto que el primero de los peque\u00f1os cohetes europeos Vega despegue de Kourou a principios de 2011. La ESA est\u00e1 invirtiendo 45 millones de euros para adaptar las antiguas instalaciones de lanzamiento del Ariane-1 (ELA-1) para su uso.<\/p>\n

Se ha construido un nuevo complejo de lanzamiento para el cohete ruso de tama\u00f1o medio Soyuz, que empez\u00f3 a volar desde Kourou en octubre 2011. El emplazamiento del Soyuz se encuentra 13 km al noroeste del lugar de lanzamiento del Ariane-5. Cuenta con un nuevo edificio para el montaje de cohetes, centro de control y plataforma de lanzamiento.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To date, ESA has invested more than \u20ac2 billion in improving and developing Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou. ESA owns the launch facilities and the industrial plants. It also contributes substantially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2004\/04\/artist_s_view_of_vega4\/17879588-2-eng-GB\/Artist_s_view_of_Vega.jpg","esa_banner_description":"Artist's view of Vega","esa_banner_credit":"ESA-J. Huart","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2004\/04\/Artist_s_view_of_Vega4","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[10,41,40],"tags":[2],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn","category-rockets-technology","category-technology","tag-background-article"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}