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    During 1949, the French government established the Laboratoire de Recherches Balistiques et Aérodynamiques at Vernon, outside Paris, for the purpose of pursuing...
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  • back to 1946 when, right after World War II, the Laboratoire de recherches balistiques et aérodynamiques (LRBA, Ballistic and aerodynamic research laboratory)...
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    responsibility for manufacturing was held by the Laboratoire de recherches balistiques et aérodynamiques (LRBA). Partial system tests were conducted in...
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    Vesta sounding rocket, conceived in 1962 by the Laboratoire de recherches balistiques et aérodynamiques (LRBA), a specialized French Army research facility...
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    1946, the Direction des Etudes et Fabrications d'Armement set up the Laboratoire de Recherches Balistiques et Aérodynamiques (LRBA) in Vernon, on a former...
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    Weapons Research Establishment and the French Laboratoire de Recherche en Balistique et Aérodynamique (based at Vernon). After two minutes and fifteen...
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