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Not the only country. Australia launched a satellite in 1967 and it no longer has an active satellite program. However they still do some cool aerospace researc
by tjmc 14y ago
Not the only country. Australia launched a satellite in 1967 and it no longer has an active satellite program. However they still do some cool aerospace research here like this Mach 10 scramjet test back in 2007: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12075-scramjet-hits-mach-10-over-australia-.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12075-scramjet-hits-ma...
- arethuza 14y agoFrom what I can see WRESAT used a modified American Redstone launcher. Britain still manufactures satellites, but what we don't still have is a home grown capability for launching them. As far as I know, the UK is the only country to have launched its own satellite with its own launcher that has given up that capability. NB The Prosopero satellite is still orbiting after 40 years and was launched from Australia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_%28satellite%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_%28satellite%29