UK War Office: Government / agency (United Kingdom), launches, rockets and satellites

Industry / Companies / UK War Office

0Orbital launches

3All launches (incl. suborbital)

0Satellites in orbit

0Satellites built

0Rockets / spacecraft

UK War Office is a government organisation based in the United Kingdom, founded in 1684. Our records show 3 launches.

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

Divisions, sites and subsidiaries

Special Projectiles Operation Group 0 orbital launches · 0 satellites in orbit

Recent launches

Date	Mission	Vehicle	Site	Result
15 Oct 1945	Backfire 3	V-2	Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Deutschland	Success
4 Oct 1945	Backfire 2	V-2	Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Deutschland	Failure
2 Oct 1945	Backfire 1	V-2	Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Deutschland	Success

Provenance

Where this comes from

This entry merges 1 source: GCAT (J. McDowell)
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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.