AUSTRALIAN LAUNCH RECORD (From 1967) Date Launch Vehicle Payload/Comments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 Nov 67 Redstone Sparta WRESAT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *29 Nov 68 Europa-1 F-7 STV 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * 2 Jul 69 Europa-1 F-8 STV 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *12 Jun 70 Europa-1 F-9 STV 3 * 2 Sep 70 Black Arrow R-2 Orba (X-2) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 Oct 71 Black Arrow R-3 Prospero (X-3) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 Jul 73 Skylark 3 AC SL1291 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 Jul 74 Skylark 3 AC SL1292 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 Feb 75 Skylark 3 AC SL1293 3 Jul 75 Skylark 6 AC SL1295 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 Jun 77 Skylark 3 AC SL1298 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Nov 78 Skylark 3 AC SL1296 13 Dec 78 Skylark 3 AC SL1297 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Feb 89 Ausroc I 3 km alt. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *22 Oct 92 Ausroc II-1 Frozen LOX valve -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *26 May 95 Ausroc II-2 Frozen LOX presssure regulator (2.4 km alt.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *30 Oct 01 T70O T-Orion 5A Hyshot 1 'Hilary' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *14 Jul 02 NAL 735 NEXST (11% SST Model) 30 Jul 02 T70O HyShot 2 'Hans' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 Oct 05 NAL 735 NEXST-1 (11% SST Model) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 Mar 06 T70O HyShot 3 *30 Mar 06 T70O HyShot 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Jun 07 Talos-Castor HyCAUSE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 May 09 TO HIFiRE 0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 Mar 10 TO HIFiRE 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 Nov 12 RASTA Mk.1 2.5 km (15cm x 3m, N2O/Wax) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 May 16 VS-30/IO V12 HIFiRE 5B (278 km alt.) +22 Jul 16 RASTA Mk.2 5.5 km (15.6cm x 3.5m, N2O/ABS, 2 kN, nose cone deployed early resulting in impact with ground) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 May 17 ? ? (Black Sky Aerospace) 30 Jun 17 VSB-30 V12 HIFiRE 4 (HyShot V) *25 Sep 17 Wedgetail X 2U Cubesat Simulator (parachute failed to deploy) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Sep 18 L3200 V-MAX AIAA UNSW Rocketry Team (910 m) ? Oct 18 ? ? (Woomera) 21 Nov 18 Sighter190 Hypersonix sensor suite, ACSER sensor package, DEKUNA Techologies sensor package (5.18 km) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 Apr 19 Into The Blue AURC Flight 1 (9.75 km) 20 Apr 19 Into The Blue AURC Flight 2 (9.36 km) 20 Apr 19 Minerva AURC (9.39 km) 21 Apr 19 Athena AURC (3.07 km) *29 Jul 19 Ariel F1 One Vision (GPS tracking system), HTP tank over pressurised at T-7 s due to He regulation failure -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 Feb 20 Peregrine ATV Test Flight for Raptor Aerospace (8 km) *19 Sep 20 DART F1 TED 01 (DSX-001, DEWC-SP1, payload failed to sep.) *19 Sep 20 DART F2 TED 02 (DSX-001, DEWC-SP2, payload failed to sep.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 Jan 21 150 MVP F1 Low Energy Propellant Test, IXI Bioreactor 17 Jan 21 150 MVP F2 High Energy Propellant Test, IXI Bioreactor *16 Sep 21 Hapith I F1 VS01 (caught fire at T-0) Oct 21 ? ? (Woomera) 16 Nov 21 Sighter 150 F1 BITSCore (9 km) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 Mar 22 Sighter 150 F2? Integration of guidance and control 30 Apr 22 Bluewren F1 Test Flight (9.6 km) 26 Jun 22 BB IX 36.347UH Univ. of Wisconsin/HEA (XQC) 6 Jul 22 BB IX 36.339UG Univ. of Colorado/UV-Optical (SISTINE 3) 11 Jul 22 BB IX 36.350UG Univ. of Colorado/UV-Optical (DEUCE 4) *30 Aug 22 DART F3 TED 03/VE2NOM 1 (DSX-002, DEWC-SP3) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Nov 23 NASAMS Test -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 May 24 SR75-1 Light This Candle! (50 km) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 Jul 25 PrSM Test Flight *29 Jul 25 Eris MSN001 TestFlight1 (Vegemite 1) 31 Aug 25 MiniMeggs F1 Test Flight (792 m) 26 Nov 25 A01 F1 Test flight (80 km) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Apr 26 GMLRS Test flight 6 Jul 26 MiniMeggs F2 Test flight (5.2 km, HELIOS - Suit in a Box, Parallax 0) 2qt 26 Sirius 1 Hypersonic test flight #14 Sep 26 MiniMeggs F3 Metakosmos payload #12 Oct 26 MiniMeggs F4 Orbit2Orbit payload 4qt 26 Eris MSN002 TestFlight2 2hf 26 Rocket 4 F2 Test flight # 26^ Lanius Aculeus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4qt 25 HTB F1 Test flight 25 Aurora F1 Test flight (125 km) 25 HAWK CMP Test flight 25 Hawk Jr F1 ? 25 KRR F1 Test Flight 25 S31/S30 ReFEx 25 USB F1 Test Flight ? Dorado ? ? Eris Block 2 F1 Test flight ? Eris Block 2 Caravan 1 ? Eris HyperSight 60 ? SCIFIRE Test Flight ? UNA EXPRESS I Test Flight -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 Sirius 13 ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Launch Failure + Partial Failure # Change since beginning of month Aurora Reaction Dynamics RE 102 hybrid rocket engine ACSER Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research AURC Australian University Rocket Competition DEUCE Dual Channel Extreme Ultraviolet Continuum Spectrograph DEWC Defence Electronic Warfare Company CMP Composite DSX DEWC Space Experiment GMLRS Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System HEA High Energy Astrophysics HIFiRE Hypersonics International Flight Research Experimentation HTB Hypersonic Test Bed IO Improved Orion IXI Interplanetary Exploration Institute KRR Koonibba Rising Rocket KTR Kooniba Test Range NASAMS National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System NEXST National Experimental Supersonic Transport PrSM Precision Strike Missile RASTA Recovery And Separation Systems Test Article ReFEx Reusability Flight Experiment SCIFIRE Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment SISTINE Spectrograph for Transition Region Irradiance From Nearby Exoplanet Host Stars SR Sounding Rocket SST Supersonic Transport TED T-Minus Engineering DART TO Terrier Orion T70O Terrier Mk.70 Orion USB Unastella Bravo XQC X-ray Quantum Calorimeter