European Space Agency’s main space port/(Launching Site) lies in :
Kourou-French Guiana
The European Space Agency (ESA) launches its rockets from the Guiana Space Centre (Centre Spatial Guyanais) at Kourou on the north-eastern coast of South America, in the French overseas department of French Guiana. The site was set up by the French space agency CNES in the 1960s and has been used by ESA since the Ariane programme began in 1979.
Kourou lies only about five degrees north of the Equator, so a rocket gains extra speed from the Earth’s rotation, which makes it well suited to launches into geostationary orbit. Its open ocean to the east and north also lets launch trajectories pass over water. Ariane, Vega and Soyuz vehicles have flown from the centre, carrying many satellites, including several of India’s communication satellites.
Port Moresby is the capital of Papua New Guinea and has no launch site. CERN near Geneva is the European laboratory for particle physics, not a space port. Catania in Sicily is a city and port in Italy with no European launch complex.
Kourou-French Guiana option is correct.
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