The Amazonas 4A satellite reaches the Kourou launch site

The HISPASAT Group’s Amazonas 4A satellite was successfully taken, by a Boeing 747 airplane, to the European Space Agency’s launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. The move came after all tests were carried out satisfactorily and the manufacturing process at the Orbital Sciences Corporation’s facilities in Dulles (Virginia) was completed. Final tests will be conducted…