Australia Launches 35kg Commercial Rocket into Atmosphere

admin September 18, 2020 Daily Current Affairs

The Dart rocket, carrying an air force radio prototype, was launched from the Koonibba rocket range in South Australia.
At just 3.4m long and 34kg, the commercial rocket is a fraction of the size of rockets launched by NASA and will travel up to 100km into the atmosphere.
The launch is part of the air force’s Plan Jericho – an advanced sensing program to detect and track challenging targets that has also seen a high-altitude balloon launched to the edge of space.
The rocket is unlike any rocket ever launched in Australia, and is part of what is known as ‘new space’ technologies – small rockets carrying reduced sized satellites using commercially available technologies.