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NASA to launch 3 rockets from private Australian space port
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The Arnhem Space Centre is seen on the Gove Peninsula in Australia's Northern Territory May 2, 2022. NASA will launch a research rocket from remote northern Australia this month in the agency's first launch from a commercial facility outside the United States. - photo by Equatorial Launch Australia via AP
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — NASA will launch a research rocket from remote northern Australia this month in the agency’s first blast off from a commercial space port outside the United States. Three suborbital sounding rockets will be launched from the Arnhem Space Center on Indigenous-owned land near the mining town of Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory on June 26, July 4 and 12, said NASA and the launch pad’s owner, Equatorial Launch Australia. The launch site was chosen because it is in the Southern Hemisphere and close to the equator.