Launch Area 5 at the Woomera Prohibited Area was a rocket launch site which supported a number of British experimental launches, including the United Kingdom's first, and as of 2011 only, satellite launch. It consisted of three separate launch pads, which supported 22 Black Knight sounding rocket launches, and four Black Arrow carrier rocket launches. Of the four Black Arrow launches, two were orbital launches, the first of which, on 2 September 1970, failed, and the second, on 28 October 1971, succeeded, placing the Prospero satellite into low Earth orbit.
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