The Woomera rocket range in the Australian outback is to be used again after
a break of 27 years. Under a deal signed between the Australian government and a
US company, Kistler Aerospace of Kirkland, Washington, up to 24 launches a year
will take place at the site, 420 kilometres northwest of Adelaide, starting in
1999. Payloads, mainly communications satellites, will be put into low orbits
between 300 and 1000 kilometres above the Earth. Woomera’s last space shot was
the launch of a British research satellite called Prospero.
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