Space Economy · French Guiana
Key Facts
—The bet. Spain’s PLD Space is putting thirty-five million euros, about forty-one million dollars, into its own launch pad at Kourou in French Guiana.
—The first. It becomes the first private operator to commit money on this scale at Europe’s historic spaceport.
—Local spend. Thirteen million euros, around fifteen million dollars, goes straight to more than twenty firms based in French Guiana.











