Koonibba Test Range

The Koonibba Test Range is a rocket test range site near the township of Koonibba in the far west of South Australia. Rockets are launched to the north over a clear area – the Yumbarra Conservation Park and Yellabinna Wilderness Protection Area – for 145 kilometres (90 mi).

Koonibba Test Range
TED-02 Launch, September 2020
LocationKoonibba, South Australia
Coordinates31.885558°S 133.448686°E / -31.885558; 133.448686 (Koonibba Test Range)
OperatorSouthern Launch
Total launchesTwo (19 September 2020)
Launch history
StatusActive
First launch19 September 2020 (2020-09-19)

Koonibba Test Range was reported in 2020 to be the world's largest privately owned rocket test range and the world's first permitted by an indigenous community to be launched from their land. The range allows companies, universities, space agencies and other organisations to pay for their rockets to be taken to the site, launched, and rockets and payloads to be recovered.

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