24/04/2017 (Agence Europe) – The delays experienced in the European rocket launches from the Guyana Space Centre (CSG) will not have any impact on the deployment of European flagship programmes such as Copernicus and Galileo, because no specific launch of these programmes is planned over the next few months, according to several European sources contacted by EUROPE on Monday 24 April. This is in spite of the fact that Jean Yves Le Gall, the President of the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), announced that three launches had been postponed from the Guyana Space Centre. On Friday 21 April, an agreement worth €3 billion was signed between France and the social movements in the department of Guyana, following more than a month of acute tension that led to the suspension of the launch of the Ariane V rocket (see EUROPE 11753). Work on the Ariane 6 launch pad will also be able to resume. (PH)