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X-2

Black Arrow

Royal Aircraft Establishment

Launch Status
Failure

Mission

X-2

Type: Test Flight

Uninstrumented spherical satellite meant to enable atmospheric density measurements by observing its orbital decay. It was destroyed in the failure of the first Black Arrow orbital launch failure.

Trajectory

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Location

Launch Area 5B

RAAF Woomera Range Complex

6 rockets have launched from RAAF Woomera Range Complex.

Launch Area 5B, RAAF Woomera Range Complex

Agency

Royal Aircraft Establishment –

  • Type: Government
  • Founded: 1904
  • Country: GBR

The Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) was a British research establishment, known by several different names during its history, that eventually came under the aegis of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), before finally losing its identity in mergers with other institutions.

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