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Prospero (flight spare pictured), the first British satellite launched on a British rocket, lifted off from Launch Area 5B in Woomera, South Australia.
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British experimental satellite launched in 1971
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Rocket launch site on the Woomera Test Range in Australia
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Woomera, South Australia
Town in South Australia
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