January 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... sites, the others being the Outer Hebrides and Woomera, Australia. The Outer Hebrides lost out because of poor... accessibility and unpredictable weather and though Woomera seemed ideal it was obviously a long way from home....
03 February 2018
Australia in Space
...the space arena: its historic launch base at Woomera and the fact that the remains of the deorbiting Skylab... to test its Black Knight and Blue Streak rockets at Woomera. This later morphed into the European Launcher Development Organisation’s ...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
...’ needs Skyrora owes much to the legacy of Britain’s early rocket programme which achieved orbit from Australia’s Woomera launch site. Company CEO, Ukrainian-born British national Volodymyr Levykin founded the company in 2017 and...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
.... Last but not least, the Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return will be heading to Earth in December over the Woomera Test Range site in Australia to deliver its cargo of pristine material leftover from the creation of the Solar...
25 September 2020
Baikonur - Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
... community. Many of the names evoke images of the events that took place there: Canaveral, Kourou, Shriharikota, Woomera... choose your favourite. The Baikonur Cosmodrome is among the most notable, not least because it launched the...
09 July 2021
Skyrora launches challenge to de-orbit historic satellite
... OTV to help address the space junk problem. Prospero was launched on the Black Arrow rocket from Woomera, South Australia, in October 1971. Hidden within the fairing, Prospero would be the first British satellite launched...
