Comment by Fordec

13 hours ago

Launched from South America, not Europe.

Ariane is from the ESA, which is an organization under EU. The claim was that "EU is finally decoupling itself from the USA". My point is: the EU already has Ariane, for instance. It decoupled a long time ago.

  • I don't thin ESA builds Ariane or any production launchers for that manner - Arianespace does.

  • ESA is a separate entity to the EU.

    (When the UK left the EU it was able to remain in ESA because of this separation.)