What was the name of the rocket launching site in Australia, used for early British space missions?
British space programme further government-backed British space rockets were developed. Other space agencies, notably NASA, were used for subsequent launches of UK satellites. Communication with the Prospero X-3 was terminated in 1996. "Falstaff", a British hypersonic test rocket, was launched from Woomera between 1969 and 1979. The official national space programme was revived in 1982 when the British government funded the HOTOL project, an ambitious attempt at a re-usable space plane using air-breathing rocket engines designed by Alan Bond. Work was begun by British Aerospace. However, having classified the engine design as 'top secret' the government then ended funding for the project, terminating
Berlin rocket launching site Berlin rocket launching site Rocket Launch Site Berlin ("Raketenflugplatz Berlin") was the launch site of the Space Club ("Verein für Raumschiffahrt") in Berlin-Reinickendorf at 52°33' N and 13°18' E directly adjacent to the current site of the Airport Berlin-Tegel in an area that is now Cité Pasteur. It was inaugurated in September 1930, using the site and the buildings of a disused French ammunitions depot which Rudolf Nebel managed to rent from the Prussian war ministry. The Space Club used the four-square-kilometer area to develop and test two models of liquid fuel rockets, "Mirak" and "Repulsor". Many of the rockets