A new chapter begins fot the European space sector in French Guiana.

On February 24, 2026, in French Guiana, in the presence of former Minister Christiane Taubira, Mayors of Michel Ange Jeremie hashtag#Sinnamary and François Ringuet of Kourou, representatives of government services and local authorities, our colleagues from CNES and European Space Agency – ESA, and our industrial partners, we reaffirmed a clear ambition: to launch, from the former Soyuz launch pad, the first reusable, competitive, and eco-designed European launcher – less than five years after the creation of MaiaSpace.

By reusing existing infrastructure at the Guiana Space Centre (integration building, railway, liquid oxygen storage and refueling facilities, combustion gas exhaust duct, etc.), we are choosing speed, controlled investment, economic viability, and control of our environmental impact.

French Guiana is not only a strategic site for access to space and for the vertical recovery, on a barge at sea, of the first stage of Maia. It is a territory of expertise, commitment, and future potential.

Thank you to CNES, our long-standing industrial partners and innovative SMEs, government services, elected officials, local authorities, the regional education authority, and training institutions for your commitment to our project.

Thanks to you, we can already look ahead to the coming months. Keep your eyes peeled. The specific equipment for Maia will arrive via the space route: the launch table, the mast, the tilting mechanism of the upper composite, and the new ground equipment. This will be the culmination of an immense, often invisible, undertaking, launched in 2023 and already largely behind us: the definition and design of the operational plan for a Maia launch campaign and the associated resources.

Then, from the port of Pariacabo, will come the stages of the first flight model.

Then, in Sinnamary, after more than four years of silence, we will once again hear – but above all, we will feel – the vibrations of the three Prometheus engines that power Maia’s first stage.

At that moment, we will be able to proudly say that MaiaSpace and all its institutional and industrial partners are writing a new chapter in the history of space exploration in French Guiana.