... 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....
...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 ...
...’ 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...
.... 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...
... 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...
... 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...