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the other reason was that Solid booster were Military ICBM hardware and CNES don't wanted be dependency from them


they try the shroud thing with Lanceur 3ième Génération Substitution (L3S) from 1972

were third stage are in a shroud with same diameter as second stage

in 1973 the L3S redesigned into Ariane 1 the second and third stage got same diameter.


by the way

A picture of L3S and Ariane 1


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