PARIS — Ice-cream stores reopened several days ago in Paris but Europe’s Guiana Space Center, often labeled a critical European infrastructure, will not resume launches until mid-June, according to the French space agency, CNES. And even that date is freighted with qualifiers.
In what appears to be a concession to the often-sensitive relations between the French government and the local Guianese population and the unions that work at the space center, the spaceport is strictly following the same Covid-19 reopening calendar as French nursery schools . . .
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