During ELDO Europa 2 project, it became clear that Woomera launch site was not able to launch payload with Europa 2 to GEO
One Proposal was to build (or move) a Launch site near of the equator, at Darwin in Northern Territory.
http://www.spaceuk.org/bstreak/eldo/darwin.jpg
But the French had...
In 1959 G.K.C.Pardoe, Chief Coordinator/balistic missiles at DeHavilland Propellers Ltd.
made several proposals to use the Blue Streak as the basis for a sattelite transport
system.
- The first shown would combine the Blue Streak with a solid propellant second stage,
where the payload would have...
british commonwealth
cold war
communications satellite
europeanlauncherdevelopmentorganisation
great britain
icbm
reconnaissance satellite
royal air force
space age
space race
spy sat
strategic reconnaissance
western europe
title says all.
It seems that Tony Buttler did it again!
Along the mythical Avro 732 "supersonic Vulcan" he mention a Vulcan with a Diamant rocket under wing. (I've seen a pic, but I won't post it here)
More info on the context and specs of this project ?
I've checked Diamant A/B/BP-4 at...
cold war
eldo
europeanlauncherdevelopmentorganisationeuropean space agency
france
great britain
nuclear power
nuclear rockets
space race
west germany
western europe
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