Ariane is an expensive legacy rocket.
replyLaunched from South America, not Europe.
replyAriane 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.
replyI don't thin ESA builds Ariane or any production launchers for that manner - Arianespace does.
replyESA is a separate entity to the EU.
reply(When the UK left the EU it was able to remain in ESA because of this separation.)
It's from the European part of South America.
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