Re: "reached its desired orbit."
<Ker-thwack!> (nail on head sound).
Good old-fashioned Gaullist dogma. Send a "screw you" message to the Americans, whatever the cost to you.
Terribly nice of us all to pay for this monumental bureaucratic white elephant while already having our pips squeezed due to massive fiscal incompetence by the EU.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
