guiana_space_centre | headquarter | kourou_french_guiana <tsp> ela-3 | site | guiana_space_centre <tsp> ariane_5 | launchsite | ela-3 <sep> the guiana space centre (french: centre spatial guyanais; csg), also called europe's spaceport, is a european spaceport to the northwest of kourou in french guiana, a region of france in south america kourou is located approximately 310 mi (500 km) north of the equator at a latitude of 5° in operation since 1968, it is a suitable location for a spaceport because of its equatorial location and open sea to the east the european space agency (esa), the european union agency for the space programme (euspa), the french space agency cnes (national centre for space studies), the space agency of the republic of azerbaijan (azercosmos) and the commercial company arianespace conduct launches from kourou it was used by the esa to send supplies to the international space station using the automated transfer vehicle 
the ariane 5 was launched at ela-3 which is located at the guiana space centre whose headquarters are at kourou.the kourou french guiana guiana space centre is a european spaceport