AKA: Dorado;Kookaburra-1. Status: Retired 1976. Gross mass: 100 kg (220 lb). Height: 1.70 m (5.50 ft). Diameter: 0.12 m (0.39 ft).
HAD Australian test vehicle. The HAD vehicle was, like HAT, a two stage rocket, based on British Gosling and LAPStar motors. First launched in 1961, it had two test flights before becoming operational. |
LAPSTAR-52 WRE solid rocket engine. HAD second stage. |
Cockatoo Australian sounding rocket. The Cockatoo solid-propellant sounding rocket replaced HAD at Woomera in 1970, and consisted of a British Gosling I first stage and an Australian Lupus 1 second stage. |
Cockatoo Mk 4 Australian sounding rocket. The Cockatoo Mk 4 used a Gosling IV first stage and a Lupus 1 second stage. It could take a 16 kg payload to 135 km. |
Lorikeet Australian test vehicle. Two stage vehicle consisting of 1 x Dorado + 1 x Lupus |
Lorikeet Mk 2 Australian two-stage solid propellant upper atmospheric research rocket, consisting of Dorado 1A and Lupus 3A rocket motors. Built at the Maribrynong Explosives Factory; developed in the early 1970s as a replacement for the Kookaburra and Cockatoo rockets. |
Corella Australian sounding rocket. Two stage vehicle consisting of 1 x Gosling + 1 x Dorado |