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The French space agency CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) is a Public Institution of Industrial and Commercial Endeavour (EPIC), under the joint tutelage of the Ministry of Research and New Technologies, and the Ministry of Defense. Created in 1961, its mandate is to propose a French space strategy to the government and then put this strategy in action.
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