LaunchesX-2
Royal Aircraft EstablishmentFAILURE
X-2
Black Arrow · Test Flight
1970Launch Area 5B, RAAF Woomera Range Complex
Mission
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.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- Royal Aircraft Establishment
- Rocket
- Black Arrow
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Launch Area 5B
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2