Prospero (X-3), a British technology satellite testing solar cells, thermal coatings, and micrometeoroid detectors. Black Arrow from Woomera LA-5B made the UK's first and only indigenous orbital success; final Black Arrow flight and last orbital launch from Woomera.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 67 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 2 Black Arrow flights
- Date and time
- 28 October 1971, 04:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Black Arrow
- Builder
- Westland
- Launch site
- Launch Area 5B, RAAF Woomera Range Complex
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1971-093
- Launches in 1971
- 102nd of 133
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