[mikebonnell]

Is there a specific reason why this site seems to have so much less visible infrastructure than ESA or NASA?

[philipwhiuk]

It's a much much smaller rocket than you see at Kourou or at Kennedy. Kennedy was, let's not forget, built for a vehicle more powerful than the Saturn V. And both to handle the SRBs of Ariane launchers (which basically chuck flying rubble out the back on launch).

The pad infrastructure is reasonably similar to an actual comparative launch site like Kodiak AK.

[mikebonnell]

Thank you, that makes so much sense.