From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ff82503a0cc9b6e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-29 19:00:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane5 FAQ, 4th draft Date: 29 Jul 2003 19:00:15 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3f26573c$1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.152.82.215 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1059530416 17408 127.0.0.1 (30 Jul 2003 02:00:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jul 2003 02:00:16 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40980 Date: 2003-07-30T02:00:16+00:00 List-Id: David Gillon wrote: > > 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. Thanks for the correction, I'll change "European Union" to "ESA = European Space Agency" in the next draft of the FAQ. Perhaps eventually I'll find a proper place in the FAQ for desciption of the role of Arianspace. > 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. Yes, that probably would be good for the FAQ to do that, but I think that I personally can't afford such a deep research. Perhaps someone else will do that. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia