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, 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) 19 Sep 20 DART F2 TED-02 (DSX-001, DEWC-SP2) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 21 150 MVP? Sovereign Propellant Test 2qt 21 Blue Whale 1 F2 50 kg satellite Mid 21 Eris-S 3rd Stage 100 km Mid 21 ? DLR # 3qt 21 DART F3 TED-03 (DSX-002, DEWC-SP3) # 3qt 21 DART F4 TED-04 (DSX-002, DEWC-SP4) # 2hf 21 Blue Whale 1 F1 First stage only 21 Asteria 100 km 21 Blue Whale 1 F2 First orbital attempt ? Dorado F1 ? ? ALV-2 F1 ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar 22 Eris-S F1 Optimus 1 Space Taxi (Potoroo) # 1qt 22 Hapith I? Suborbital Test 27 Jun 22 BB IX 36.347UH Univ. of Wisconsin/HEA (XQC) 5 Jul 22 BB IX 36.339UG Univ. of Colorado/UV-Optical (SISTINE) 15 Jul 22 BB IX 36.350UG Univ. of Colorado/UV-Optical (DEUCE 4) 22 S31/S30 ReFEx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 Eris Centauri (6) 23 Eris-S Griffith University G-Class Satellite -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 Hawk Jr F1 ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o Orbital Launch * Launch Failure + Partial Failure # Change since beginning of month ACSER Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research AURC Australian University Rocket Competition DEUCE Dual Channel Extreme Ultraviolet Continuum Spectrograph DEWC Defence Electronic Warfare Company DSX DEWC Space Experiment 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 ReFEx Reusability Flight Experiment SISTINE Spectrograph for Transition Region Irradiance From Nearby Exoplanet Host Stars SST Supersonic Transport TED T-Minus Engineering DART TO Terrier Orion T70O Terrier Mk.70 Orion WRX Water Recovery X-Ray Rocket XQC X-ray Quantum Calorimeter