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France's first launch site Centre interarmées d'essais d'engins spéciaux in Hammaguir (Algeria) after Algeria's independence, moving to and expanding in Guiana colonization. In 1975, France offered to share Kourou with the ESA, with ESA covering today two thirds of Guiana Space Centre's budget. Commercial launches are also bought by non-European companies.

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