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France Has a 344 Million Euro Shot at the Edge of the Guyanese Forest: What Emptied It Was neither a Breakdown nor a Shortage of Customers

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A space infrastructure of 344 million euros built in French Guiana to accommodate Russian Soyuz rockets was reduced to dust on 24 April 2026. No technical failure, no shortage of customers: it was a political decision taken in Russia and Europe that sealed its fate four years earlier. More
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A space infrastructure of 344 million euros built in French Guiana to accommodate Russian Soyuz rockets was reduced to dust on 24 April 2026. No technical failure, no shortage of customers: it was a political decision taken in Russia and Europe that sealed its fate four years earlier. More

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SciencePost broke the news on Friday, August 14, 2026.
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