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Launch Area 5 (LA5) is an operational site at the RAAF Woomera Test Range which forms the primary operational capability of the Woomera Range Complex. Originally LA5 was a rocket launch site which supported a number of British experimental launches, including the United Kingdom's first, and as of 2023 only, satellite launch. It consisted of three separate launch pads, which supported 22 Black Knight sounding rocket launches, and four Black Arrow carrier rocket launches. Of the four Black Arrow launches, two were orbital launches, the first of which, on 2 September 1970, failed, and the second, on 28 October 1971, succeeded, placing the Prospero satellite into low Earth orbit.

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1. See: HQWTR - Woomera Range Complex Fact Sheet (Nov 2013)
2. "Woomera". www.astronautix.com. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
3. "Woomera LA5A". www.astronautix.com. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
4. ^ "Woomera LA5B". www.astronautix.com. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
5. See: Peter Morton, 'Fire Across the Desert', AGPS 1989

v t e Black Arrow rockets
Main articles	Black Arrow British space programme
Components	Gamma Waxwing
Payloads	Orba R2 Instrument Package Prospero
Related	Woomera Test Range Woomera Launch Area 5 Black Knight Blue Streak Black Prince

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