Woomera
Woomera (300 inhabitants approximately) is a village of the Outback in southernmost Australia with approximately 490 kilometers in the north of Adélaïde on the " Stuart Highway".
The name of the village is an indigenous word " Eora" who indicates an hunting weapon aboriginal. This name was selected because of the military activities envisaged in limit of the city.
Population of " Woomera Village" reached: 6000 inhabitants with his apogee but stabilized themselves now around 300. Close to the village an important military zone is: " the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) ", a zone of: 127000 kilometer-squares (either appreciably size of the England) what makes of it the greatest military base of test in the world. The area was used since the years 1950 jointly by Australia and Great Britain for tests of Missile S and Fusée S (including nuclear missiles). The center sheltered also the station of follow-up on the ground of satellites of Nurrungar (31.323809° S 136.776942° E) which was closed in 1999 to be transferrée with Pine Gap.
Although many sounding rockets was launched since Woomera, only two satellites were put into orbit from this place: the Australian satellite WREsat in 1967 and the British satellite Prospero in 1971. At present the majority of the launching sites are abandoned but the launching of sounding rockets continues regularly.
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