Guiana


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a geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam

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It said in the shorter term drought situation -by end of November - drought might possibly develop in much of Belize, Dominica, Martinique, Trinidad and Suriname, while long term drought situation for the same period is evolving in much of Belize, Dominica, French Guiana, Martinique, St.
It has orbited more than 600 satellites since 1980, using its family of three launchers, Ariane, Soyuz and Vega, from launch sites in French Guiana (South America) and Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
The Vega launch vehicle lifted off as scheduled on July 10, 2019, at 22:53 hrs (local time in French Guiana).
The decision was made after announcing that the weather conditions have improved over the French Guiana Space Centre on the north Atlantic coast of South America, Wam-Emirates news agency reported.
The UAE's fourth reconnaissance satellite the 'Falcon Eye 1' will be launched to space tomorrow (Thursday) at the French Guiana Space Centre at 5.53am UAE time.
1 / 2 The Ariane 5 rocket took off from French Guiana on schedule.
In this excerpt from French Guiana: Memory-Traces of the Penal Colony, Chamoiseau explores the possibilities of rewriting the colonial legacy of one of the most notorious penitentiaries in the francophone world, which was established in 1852 and lasted till the mid-twentieth century.
Europe's first mission to Mercury, built in cooperation with the Japanese space agency JAXA, was launched on board an Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on Oct.
European heavy-lift launch vehicle Ariane 5 successfully lifted off from the spaceport of the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana on September 25 evening.
It has orbited more than 570 satellites since 1980, using its family of three launchers, Ariane, Soyuz and Vega, from launch sites in French Guiana (South America) and Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
In French Guiana, a laboratory-confirmed case of hantavirus infection was reported in a hospitalized patient in 2008; the complete sequence analysis showed that this was a novel hantavirus closely related to the Rio Mamore species called Maripa virus (7,8).
For example, killer whales (Orcinus orca) swim faster (Williams et al., 2014); Guiana dolphins (Sotalia guianensis) breath at a decreased frequency (Santos et al., 2013) and increase breathing synchrony (Tosi & Ferreira, 2008); Hawaiian spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) perform a higher whistle activity (Heenehan et al., 2017) and bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) alter their activity more frequently (Constantine et al., 2004) in the presence of boat.
Summary: The launch vehicle lifted from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana carrying Al Yah 3 and European satellite SES-14.
To obtain principal baseline data that will inform management efforts, we characterized the habitat and recorded the behaviour of a Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) population within one of the most well-preserved estuaries off southern Brazil.
Among them is a mining license near French Guiana, in which Total SA has a share, according to an adviser to Ecology Minister Nicolas Yullo, who spoke to reporters in Paris.