alt Hacker NewsFrom a sovereignty perspective, does a launch from continental Europe actually matter when Arianespace/CNES/ESA has been launching from France for decades?
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orphereus • today at 12:26 AM
Doesn't it matter if this part of France is an ocean away?
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vik0 • today at 12:03 AM
There is no sovereignty perspective because Europe isn't even sovereign to begin with. For starters it doesn't even have a common army
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But French Guiana is a geographically distant ex-colony, so there will always be a higher probability of future inaccessibility. Same applies to New Caledonia, Martinique, etc.