France will participate in a capital increase by satellite operator Eutelsat to the tune of €717 million (US$826 million) to help the company finance the expansion of its constellation of low-orbit communication satellites and create a sovereign European alternative to Starlink.
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Nothing is said about transportation to space. Hopefully not SpaceX.
Reading the wiki article reveals they used whoever was available and cheap: Soyus 2 (Russian, until 2022), LVM 3 (Indian,since 2022), Falcon 9 (USA, since 2022)
It makes sense for a company that does not build rockets to just use whats on the market.