September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... rocket programmes in 1957. Part of the Woomera rocket park, showing a Skylark rocket and the Black Arrow reconstruction in the background. Britain’s Black Knight research missile was used 1958 - 1965 for a range of defence research projects focussed...
09 July 2021
Skyrora launches challenge to de-orbit historic satellite
... would be the first British satellite launched from a British rocket. In 2018, Skyrora recovered the first stages of Black Arrow-R2 and R3 from its landing site in the South Australian outback. Half a century later, Prospero continues in orbit...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... fi nal launch, to date, of a satellite into space from within Australia, as the UK launched its fi rst satellite aboard Black Arrow from Woomera. Miniature satellites stand as the next iterative step within the Space 2.0 ecosystem. The following...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... an unacceptable risk to launch rockets overhead. Britain’s space programme of the time, which included rockets such as Black Arrow, Black Knight and Blue Streak, was eventually switched to Australia - until the launcher project was axed in 1972. ...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... in Norfolk, England, for the UK’s indigenous launcher, Black Arrow. Further investigation showed that launches to the north (the...also being proposed for use supporting Spaceport Cornwall. A Black Brant XII sounding rocket is launched from the Andøya ...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... market failure in terms of the availability of affordable insurance”. Artist’s impression of the Prospero satellite separating from the Black Arrow launch vehicle in low Earth orbit in October 1971. This was the first and only successful orbital...
