Royal Aircraft Establishment: Government / agency (United Kingdom), launches, rockets and satellites

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2Orbital launches

100All launches (incl. suborbital)

2Satellites in orbit

1Satellites built

1Rockets / spacecraft

Royal Aircraft Establishment is a government organisation based in the United Kingdom, founded in 1904. Our records show 2 orbital launches, 2 satellites in orbit and 1 rockets or spacecraft.

Totals include the divisions, sites and subsidiaries listed under Structure below.

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Sources disagree.
Founding year: Launch Library 2 says 1904; GCAT (J. McDowell) says 1918; Wikidata says 1892
We show the value from the most detailed source and flag the difference instead of guessing.

Structure

Divisions, sites and subsidiaries

RAE Rocket Propulsion Department 0 orbital launches · 0 satellites in orbit

Products

Rockets and spacecraft

Name	Type	Status	First flight	Launches	To low orbit
Black Arrow	Rocket	Retired	1969	2 (1 failed)	135 kg

Satellites in orbit

By platform

X-3	1
X-4	1

Recent launches

Date	Mission	Vehicle	Site	Result
4 Apr 1979	CHEVALINE F5	Falstaff	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Success
14 Feb 1979	CHEVALINE F4	Falstaff	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Success
6 Dec 1978	CHEVALINE F3	Falstaff	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Success
15 Sep 1978	CHEVALINE F2	Falstaff	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Success
23 May 1978	CHEVALINE F1	Falstaff	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Failure
20 Feb 1976	1976-S106	Falstaff	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Success
9 May 1975	1975-S149	Falstaff	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Success
20 Nov 1974	RAE Aero Model	Jabiru 3	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Success
31 Oct 1974	RAE Aero Model	Jabiru 3	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Success
6 Sep 1974	RAE Aero Model	Jabiru 3	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Success
6 Dec 1973	Ablation 2	Jabiru 3	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Success
14 Nov 1973	Ablation 1	Jabiru 3	Woomera Instrumented Range, Woomera, South Australia	Success

Provenance

Where this comes from

This entry merges 3 sources: Launch Library 2 · GCAT (J. McDowell) · Wikidata (Q1419175 )
Verification status: cross-checked across sources, not yet reviewed by a person. How we build and check this data.

Launch and satellite data: Jonathan McDowell's GCAT (CC BY 4.0) and CelesTrak. Rockets, spacecraft and agencies: Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs and Wikidata. News headlines link to their publishers via the Spaceflight News API and RSS feeds. Records come from several sources and are matched automatically, so treat the directory as a research aid, not an authority. How the data is built and checked.