AUSTRALIAN LAUNCH RECORD (From 1973) Date Launch Vehicle Payload/Comments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Jul 17 VSB-30 V12 HIFiRE 4 (HyShot V) *25 Sep 17 Wedgetail X 2U Cubesat Simulator (parachute failed to deploy) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Jun 18 Ariel F1 GPS tracking system 18 ThunderStruck S-1 ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 VS-40M HIFiRE 8 (HyShot VII) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 1 Apr 20 BB IX 36.339UG Univ. of Colorado/UV-Optical (SISTINE) # 1 Apr 20 BB IX 36.341UH Penn. State Univ./HEA (WRX 2) # 1 Apr 20 BB IX 36.347UH Univ. of Wisconsin/HEA o 4qt 20 Eris F1 ? o 20 ALV-2 F1 ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o Orbital * Launch Failure + Partial Failure # Change since beginning of month HEA High Energy Astrophysics HIFiRE Hypersonics International Flight Research Experimentation IO Improved Orion NEXST National Experimental Supersonic Transport RASTA Recovery And Separation Systems Test Article SISTINE Spectrograph for Transition Region Irradiance From Nearby Exoplanet Host Stars SST Supersonic Transport TO Terrier Orion T70O Terrier Mk.70 Orion WRX Water Recovery X-Ray Rocket