Europe's Spaceport covers 700 km2 of land dedicated to European space activities, but facilities cover less than 10 percent of this territory. It is surrounded on two sides by equatorial forest, to the east it has a 50 km coastline bordering the Atlantic Ocean and to the south lies the town of Kourou.

The Spaceport contains the administrative buildings as well as the numerous facilities required for a launch of the Vega-C and Ariane 6 rockets.