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On the 28 October 1971 BLACK ARROW R3 launched from the RAAF Woomera range in Australia becoming the first and only British designed and built launch system to successfully put a British built satellite in to Earth orbit.
The programme was cancelled
shortly afterwards.
Initial development was undertaken by Saunders-Roe, and then by Westland when the two companies merged. The first and second stages were assembled at Cowes, IOW and the Bristol Siddeley rocket engines were tested at the High Down test facility on the South coast of the island, before the launcher
was shipped to RAAF Woomera.
R3 was the fourth and final flight, placing the Prospero satellite into low earth orbit.
R4, the final complete launcher, is preserved and on display in the science museum, London.
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