One odd thing about it is that it was launched from a country that is not a member of the EU?

So? Ariane flies from french guiana and has all the participants flags on it.

Fun fact: French Guiana is a part of France -- and very much part of the EU -- despite not actually being in Europe. In roughly the same way that Hawaii is a part of the United States of America, despite not actually being in America.

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