Re: Ariane5 FAQ, 4th draft

["David Gillon" <David.Gillon@spamtrap.baesystems.com>]

>   Ariane 5 was an international project (within European Union)

This may be incorrect as it implies Ariane 5 was an EU programme and I'm not
certain that there was a direct link. The European Space Agency and the
European Union are distinct and separate entities although they have a very
high degree of overlap in their member nations -- IIRC Austria and the
Nordic countries were ESA members without being EU members (though most are
now in both). At the same time Arianespace is a French commercial company,
but the Ariane programme was split in some way between ESA and Arianespace,
and to complicate things further, ISTR not all ESA members had opted into
the Ariane programme, probably the UK most prominently.

I'd run this past sci.space.tech or one of the other space newsgroups to get
an appreciation from people who will have a better view of the overall
programme structure and the way the work was divided.

                                            David