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Articles tagged: Woomera

  • Canberra,  Australian Capital Territory, Parkes,  New South Wales, Port Adelaide, Sydney,  New South Wales, Woomera September 2017 Australia’s unique space history

    ... Black Arrow programme, active 1969 - 1971, lofted Prospero, the second satellite to achieve orbit from Woomera. Woomera was also the home of space tracking facilities initially established in conjunction with the International Geophysical Year (...

    • Canberra
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • Parkes
    • New South Wales
    • Port Adelaide
    • Sydney
    • New South Wales
    • Woomera
    Authors: Kerrie Dougherty    
  • carbonaceous asteroid, Hayabusa2, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ryugu, Woomera 04 December 2020 Asteroid sample from Hayabusa2 to land on Earth 6 December

    ... which has taken just over six years to complete. Expected to land in the dark in a sparsely populated area of Woomera, if all goes well, the return capsule, which is just 40 centimetres in diameter, will have achieved a landing target...

    • carbonaceous asteroid
    • Hayabusa2
    • Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency
    • Ryugu
    • Woomera
  • Hayabusa-2, Hayabusa2, JAXA, Ryugu, Woomera 16 December 2020 Hayabusa2 delivers first-ever gas sample from an asteroid

    .... Shortly after the capsule had been collected, scientists whipped it away to a QLF (Quick Look Facility) at the Woomera Local Headquarters in Australia, to analyse any gas contained in the sample container. For confirmation, a similar analysis was...

    • Hayabusa-2
    • Hayabusa2
    • JAXA
    • Ryugu
    • Woomera
  • Hayabusa2, JAXA, Ryugu, Woomera 06 December 2020 Hayabusa2 capsule containing asteroid samples lands on Earth

    .... The capsule, which was released from the space probe on Saturday afternoon, landed in a desert near the Woomera test range, a remote Australian military and civil aerospace facility. NASA's Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen, along...

    • Hayabusa2
    • JAXA
    • Ryugu
    • Woomera
  • Australia, Australian Space Agency, IAC, SIAA September 2017 Call for Australia to head back into space

    ... the launch of WRESAT in 1967 on an American rocket from Woomera [2], which made Australia the seventh nation to launch its own...October 2014). 2 Peter Morton, Fire Across the Desert: Woomera and the Anglo-Australian Joint Project 1946-1980 (Canberra: ...

    • Australia
    • Australian Space Agency
    • IAC
    • SIAA
    Authors: Duncan Blake    
  • Monash University October 2017 Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?

    ...the UK launched its fi rst satellite aboard Black Arrow from Woomera. Miniature satellites stand as the next iterative step within the... blasts off with the Prospero satellite in 1971 from Woomera, Australia. However, in 1998 the Space Activities Act...

    • Monash University
    Authors: Jonathan Lim    
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