Retired 🇬🇫French Guiana
Diamant Launch Area
A launch pad at Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana.11 launches have flown from it since March 1970, 6 of 8 successfully.
Launches
11
Success rate
75.0% 6/8
Failures
2
First flight
1970-03-10
Latest flight
1975-09-27
Busiest year
1975 3 flights
Fastest turnaround
99d 17h 57m
Location
Pad record
- Coordinates
- 5.2222° N
52.7758° W - Status
- Retired
- Spaceport
- Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Country
- French Guiana
- Pad operator
- National Center of Space Research
- LL2 pad tally
- 8 upstream count
Who launches from here
1 operatorVehicles flown
4 typesLaunches per year
decided flights1970Peak 1975, 3 launches1975
Orbits delivered
4 destinationsLow Earth Orbit 8Polar Orbit 1Suborbital 1Sun-Synchronous Orbit 1
Scheduled
3 undecided| Date | Mission | Vehicle | Operator | Orbit | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-12-31 | Miura 5 | Maiden Flight | Miura 5 | PLD Space | Sun-Synchronous Orbit | Scheduled |
| 2027-12-31 | Callisto | Flight 1 | Callisto | – | Suborbital | Scheduled |
| 2027-12-31 | Miura 5 | 2 x Tritó | Miura 5 | PLD Space | Low Earth Orbit | Scheduled |
Excluded from every count and rate above. Dates are as recorded at the last build, when the most recent decided flight was 1975-09-27.
Flight record
8 flights| Date | Mission | Vehicle | Operator | Orbit | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975-09-27 | Diamant BP4 | Aura | Diamant BP4 | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1975-05-17 | Diamant BP4 | Castor & Pollux | Diamant BP4 | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1975-02-06 | Diamant BP4 | Starlette | Diamant BP4 | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1973-05-21 | Diamant B | Castor & Pollux | Diamant B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 1971-12-05 | Diamant B | Polaire | Diamant B | – | Polar Orbit | Failure |
| 1971-04-15 | Diamant B | Tournesol | Diamant B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1970-12-12 | Diamant B | Péole | Diamant B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 1970-03-10 | Diamant B | Dial Wika | Diamant B | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
Pad records from Launch Library 2. Flights and company identity fromSpace Index. How the numbers are derived.