 TED-02 Launch, September 2020 | |||||||||
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| Location | Koonibba, South Australia | ||||||||
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| Coordinates | 31°53′08″S 133°26′55″E / 31.885558°S 133.448686°E[1] | ||||||||
| Operator | Southern Launch | ||||||||
| Total launches | 4 | ||||||||
| Launch pad(s) | 1 | ||||||||
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The Koonibba Test Range is a rocket test range site near the township of Koonibba in the far west of South Australia. Rockets are launched to the north over a clear area – the Yumbarra Conservation Park and Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area – for 145 kilometres (90 mi).
Koonibba Test Range was reported in 2020 to be the world's largest privately owned rocket test range and the world's first permitted by an indigenous community to be launched from their land.[2] The range allows companies, universities, space agencies and other organisations to pay for their rockets to be taken to the site, launched, and rockets and payloads to be recovered.[2]
- ^ "South Australian orbital launch and suborbital launch sites". Invest in SOuth Australia. Government of South Australia Department for Trade and Investment. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- ^ a b "AdelaideAZ". AdelaideAZ. Retrieved 26 August 2020.