In what has been described as the first such agreement in the world, the UK and Australia on Tuesday created a partnership to greatly strengthen space cooperation between the two countries in most, if not all, its dimensions. The agreement has been designated the Space Bridge. The two countries have long cooperated in space matters. The UK’s one and so far only national space rocket, the Black Arrow, was launched from the Woomera launch site in South Australia. The last of four such launches successfully put a British satellite into orbit, in late 1971; this remains the only time a British satellite was successfully launched by a British rocket.
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