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October 21, 2001

The European airspace conglomerate EADS has successfully tested a full-scale prototype of a fiber-wound composite rocket motor body of the type that is to be used on the new French M51 submarine-launched nuclear missile. The casing is nearly 20 feet tall and about 6.6 feet in diameter.--Stephen V Cole