Woomera Missile Park
Woomera was set up after WWII as the British rocket and missile testing ground. Being remote desert, the spent missiles and rockets could fall harmlessly into the desert. At one point rivalling Cape Canaveral and White Sands in size of operation and number of launches, funding slowed up in the mid 1960s and by the late 1980s it was hardly used any more. Satellites were placed into orbit from here.
The place has a 1960s feel about it still.
Woomera Rocket Range Reborn SA
Can Woomera Rocket Range be resurrected? Last week we visited Woomera for ourselves and went on a tour of the tourist parks and information centers to learn all about the history and significance of this once great launch facility. Music credit: The Life and Death of a Certain K. Zabriskie, Patriarch by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (
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Woomera From Above
A few years ago, who would have thought you could have done this at Woomera's Travellers Rest Tourist Park.
Historic Woomera Films
On display in the museum at Woomera.
Lake Hart Woomera Australia 2016
A short hike at Lake Hart while driving from Uluru back South. No water, just dry salt bed. The Lake Eyre basin is a drainage basin that covers just under one-sixth of all Australia. Lake Hart is one of the smaller lakes in the basin.
Woomera (1962)
Unissued / unused material.
Australian newsreel item.
Title reads: Rockets Galore - but no fish and chips.
Woomera, Australia.
Aerial views of Woomera, small town near one of the world's best rocket-testing ranges. LS Woomera.
GV small factory, large articulated truck passes camera. Various shots very modern houses and bungalows in Woomera. CU street sign in Woomera. GV Woomera Post Office. MS large gardens with man watering plants.
Various shots women being served in a shop. LS modern stone church. Two long views of the school. LS Baden-Powell Scout Hall. MS of Brownies and Girl Guides sitting around large toadstool.
MS man drives off from tee at the golf course. M. Man putting at hole, there is no green because of the dryness of the area, the greens are made up of sand thickened by sump oil. Aerial view Woomera.
Date on dope sheet is 08/08/1962.
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HIFiRE 4 Hypersonic test flight in Woomera, South Australia
UQ hypersonics researchers collaborated with the Defence Science and Technology Group (DST Group) and US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Boeing, and BAE Systems to do a test flight in July 2017.
This vehicle is a free-flying hypersonic glider, designed to fly at Mach 8 (8000 km/hr). It is designed to separate from its rocket booster in space and perform controlled manoeuvres as it enters the atmosphere. The test flight was intended to enable learning about how to fly a hypersonic vehicle at high altitude.
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How Woomera helped to map the moon
South Australian scientists recently marked the 45th anniversary of an ambitious program to help NASA map the moon.
'eldo' Rocket Launched From Woomera AKA Eldo Rocket Launched (1966)
Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown.
Woomera, Australia
LS The Eldo rocket lifting off from Woomera, camera tilts with rocket. VS Press gathering around the space administrator for interview about the launch and flight. VS Installations around Woomera, underground test bays, aerials and launching gantry.
Note: Date on original record: 04/06/1966.
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British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
Posting Woomera outtakes (DPR/S/74)
Outtakes from the Defence Public Relations promotional film Posting Woomera showing the activities in the famous rocket testing area at Woomera, SA. Scenes of houses, schools shops, churches and sporting fields followed by scenes at the rocket range showing many of the tasks carried out by Australian Army personnel.
Woomera Emergency Services
Fun with Fire Emgines @ National Space Camp Woomera
Fulton Hogan - RAAF Woomera Overlay
Resurface of runways, taxiways and aprons at RAAF Woomera, South Australia. Project completed December 2014 by Fulton Hogan, Australasia’s leading contractor in airport runway construction, surfacing & maintenance.
Woomera, South Australia - Video Learning - WizScience.com
Woomera is an outback town in the far north of South Australia established in 1947 with a population of 216 . It was established in 1947 as a Department of Defence rocket testing range.
Woomera Village has always been a Defence owned and operated facility. Since its construction over 1947-53, it has essentially operated as a 'township' but always under a Defence model rather than a local government model. The 'Woomera Board', staffed by members of the Defence community at Woomera 'elected' to the Board by town residents has essentially acted in the role normally provided by a local government council. However, the focus of the Board's activities today is really one of welfare for the small permanent community and the large number of transit Defence personnel who deploy to Woomera each year. The main operation of the Base is now co-managed by the RAAF's Combat Support Group and the Defence Support and Reform Group . CSG focus on the operational aspects of the base's role, while DSRG focuses on ensuring the base's facilities and general infrastructure remains fit for the purpose it is needed to support the Range's activities.
RAAF Base Woomera, and in particular, 'Woomera Village', lies in the extreme south-east corner of the Woomera Prohibited Area Z . The WPA essentially defines the ground area of the Woomera Range Complex, which, in simple terms, is itself situated in the north-west pastoral region of South Australia. The base lies within the bounds of the Woomera Prohibited Area with the northern sector located within the 'Red Zone' of the WPA, while the southern sector is located within a 'Green Zone' area of the WPA.
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Running Through... Woomera Rocket Range
Until 1982 Woomera was a restricted military base used primarily for testing long range missiles and rockets during the Cold War. At the height of its operations there were 6,000 people living there - today there are just 200. But it remains the largest land based range in the world and hosts a wide spectrum of ground, air and space activities.
RAAF Woomera Range Complex | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:38 1 Etymology and broad definitions
00:09:27 2 History
00:10:00 2.1 Military use
00:10:09 2.1.1 Anglo-Australian
00:14:49 2.1.2 United States
00:14:58 2.1.2.1 Deep Space Station 41
00:17:23 2.1.3 Australian
00:24:00 2.1.3.1 RAAF Base Woomera
00:25:19 2.1.4 Other military use
00:26:27 2.2 Civil aerospace use
00:28:40 2.3 Other uses
00:30:01 2.4 Security
00:30:55 3 Land area management and administration
00:33:07 3.1 Woomera Prohibited Area Advisory Board
00:34:13 4 See also
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The RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC) is a major Australian military and civil aerospace facility and operation located in South Australia, approximately 450 kilometres (280 mi) north-west of Adelaide. The WRC is operated by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), a division of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The complex includes both the land area of 122,188 square kilometres (47,177 sq mi) and the airspace that is restricted and controlled by the RAAF for safety and security. The WRC is a highly specialised ADF test and evaluation capability operated by the RAAF for the purposes of testing war material.The word woomera is an Australian indigenous word of the Dharug language of the Eora people of the Sydney basin; a woomera is a wooden spear-throwing device. Woomera was adopted initially as an appropriate name for the settlement of Woomera, also called Woomera Village, located within the complex.
The complex has been variously known as the Anglo-Australian Long Range Weapons Establishment and then the Woomera Rocket Range; the RAAF Woomera Test Range and in 2013, the facility was reorganised and renamed to the RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC). The ground area of the WRC is defined by the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) and includes the Nurrungar Test Area (NTA); with a land area of 122,188 square kilometres (47,177 sq mi), the WPA is described by the RAAF as the largest land-based test range in the western world. The Woomera Prohibited Area Coordination Office (WPACO) coordinates daily operation of the complex which comprises a mix of South Australian crown land and is covered by pastoral leases and mining tenements granted by the Government of South Australia. The Woomera Prohibited Area Advisory Board monitors the operations of the WPA and the WPACO. The airspace above the WPA is called the Woomera Restricted Airspace (WRX) and is controlled by the RAAF for safety and security reasons during the conduct of some activities on the complex together with the support of Airservices Australia.
The complex also contains the RAAF Base Woomera, or the RAAF Woomera Airfield, that describes the dual-runway military airfield located 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) north of the settlement of the Woomera Village. The airfield has been in military operation since a RAF Dakota landed at Woomera on 19 June 1947.
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