NASA Successfully Launches a Rocket from the Remote Part of Northern Territory of Australia

NASA Successfully Launches a Rocket from the Remote Part of Northern Territory of Australia

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched the 'Mini Hubble' telescope from Australian soil. With this, it has created history by launching its first commercial spaceport outside the US. Suborbital sounding rocket has successfully taken off from Arnhem Space Centre. This is the first NASA

rocket to be launched from Australia since 1995.

NASA announced the launch of three rockets from the Arnhem Space Centre, located in the northern region of the Dhupuma  Plateau, near Nhulunbuy. All thre rockets are 13-metre 'sounding'  rockets, which will not reach space  orbit, but will make scientific  observations. The launch will set  history in many respects for the 

Australian space industry.

All three rockets are built by NASA  and will be used for scientific  investigations into the physics of  the Sun, astrophysics and types of planetary science that we can only  do in the Southern Hemisphere. 

This agreement with NASA was  announced in 2019. However, the  launch program has been delayed due to the lockdown and travel restrictions implemented to 

prevent the corona virus pandemic.