https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/29/space_round_up/ > Roundup As NASA continued to listen for its stricken Mars rover and SpaceX moved closer to a first crewed launch from US soil, rocket fans had plenty to occupy them last week. > The UK has the dubious distinction of being the only country to have successfully developed, then dumped, the capability to launch satellites. Between 1969 and 1971, four Black Arrow rockets were fired from the Woomera range in Australia, the last of which managed to fling the Prospero satellite into orbit.