Europe's spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana. More Indian satellites have been launched from here, on Ariane rockets, than from any other site outside India.
The European Space Agency calls Kourou Europe's spaceport. Europe's Ariane rockets launch from here. The public satellite catalogue lists the site as Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana.
The public catalogue lists 26 Indian satellites launched from Kourou between 1981 and 2022.
The first was APPLE, an experimental satellite, on an Ariane-1 in June 1981. INSAT-1C followed on an Ariane-3 in 1988. The INSAT-2 series flew on Ariane-4 rockets in the 1990s.
Later Indian satellites from Kourou flew on Ariane-5, among them INSAT-3D in 2013 and GSAT-11 in 2018. Most were geostationary satellites. The last Indian satellite on the catalogue's Kourou list is CMS-02 (GSAT-24), launched in June 2022.
Most of the Indian satellites launched from Kourou belong to the INSAT and GSAT series.