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Originally Posted by pluto
There were a few orbital launches and many sub-orbital launches from Woomera, though not with Australian designed/built rockets.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Australia was the third country in the world to launch it's own satellite from it's own soil, I think using a Redstone.
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Hmm, never heard of the Redstone launch, have to check. How long ago was that ?
The Scramspace launch was in Norway because Aust Govt refused launch permission in Nov 2013, he didn't elaborate why. Possibly because of the trajectory (straight down) not being over water.
UK was using WAC Corporals at Woomera IIRC but not sure about that.
More stuff to look up...
Better go google Woomera see what I can find.
OK, Black Knight\Blue Streak launch vehicles. Haven't heard those names in a long time. Last Satellite launch in 1971.
Lot of missile testing, Rapier, Bloodhound etc.