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Black Arrow | X-2
Royal Aircraft Establishment · Black Arrow · Launch Area 5B, RAAF Woomera Range Complex
Royal Aircraft Establishment's 1st launch · 1st this year · humanity's 1,122nd orbital launch attempt
September 2, 1970Add to calendar
Failure
Either the launch vehicle did not reach orbit, or the payload(s) failed to separate.
Window: Sep 2, 00:34 – Sep 2, 00:34 UTC
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X-2
Uninstrumented spherical satellite meant to enable atmospheric density measurements by observing its orbital decay. It was destroyed in the failure of the first Black Arrow orbital launch failure.
Test Flight · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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