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	LOWDOWN - Australia's History in Satellite Technology
		WRESAT was the first Australian-made satellite to be launched into space, made in 1967 and launched from Woomera late that year.
		WRESAT carried scientific instruments which were very similar to those carried on sounding rockets already being used at Woomera.
		WRESAT was launched on 29 November 1967, atop the spare SPARTA launch vehicle, from Woomera's Launch Area 8, the same pad as used for the nine Project SPARTA launches.
	www.lowdown.com.au /sat_wresat.html (717 words)

	Air Force News :: Top Stories
		The WRESAT rocket is prepared for launch at Woomera.
		WRESAT was successfully launched into an elliptical orbit around the north and south poles, with a minimum altitude (perigee) of about 200km above the Earth and a maximum altitude (apogee) of 1250km.
		WRESAT remains one of only a handful of satellites to be built in Australia (for example, another experimental satellite, FedSat, was built in Canberra in 2002).
	www.defence.gov.au /news/raafnews/editions/4708/history/story01.htm (705 words)

	Weapons Research Establishment Project WRESAT, clip 2 - australian screen
		The scientific instrumentation carried by WRESAT followed on from previous upper atmospheric research that had been conducted at Woomera using sounding rockets.
		The satellite was able to collect atmospheric information covering the high latitudes of the northern hemisphere and the mid-latitudes of the southern hemisphere – areas where measurements hadn’t previously been taken.
		WRESAT arrives at Woomera, is connected to its launch vehicle, and takes off into orbit.
	australianscreen.com.au /titles/weapons-research-establishment/clip2 (327 words)

	WRESAT
		Australia's Project WRESAT (Weapons Research Establishment Satellite) involved the development and launch from Woomera of a small scientific satellite at 2.19 pm on 29 November 1967 (local time), thereby making Australia only the fourth country to launch its own satellite from its own territory after the U.S.S.R., U.S.A. and France.
		The WRESAT project followed on from an existing program of upper atmospheric research using sounding rockets.
		The satellite was developed by the then Weapons Research Establishment (Salisbury, South Australia) and the Department of Physics at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.
	homepage.powerup.com.au /~woomera/wresat.htm (332 words)

	Wresat
		Typical orbit: 198 km x 1252 km at 83 degrees inclination.
		Weapons Research Establishment Satellite; solar radiation, upper atmosphere data.
		WRESAT 1 launched for upper atmosphere and space research at 1419 h central standard time, from Woomera, South Australia.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/wresat.htm (161 words)

	NSSDC Master Catalog Display: Spacecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		WRESAT 1, built within 11 months by the Australian Weapons Research Establishment, was launched by a Sparta launcher from Woomera into a 106x777 km orbit inclined at 83 deg.
		The 45kg Australian microsatellite used a modified American Redstone rocket and transmitted for 5 days.
		NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
	nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /database/MasterCatalog?sc=1967-118A (60 words)

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