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Launch history and upcoming schedule for Black Arrow.
This is the canonical vehicle page for Black Arrow, with launch history, upcoming missions, cadence, outcome signals, vehicle metadata, and links into the provider and exact launch records that use this rocket.
Vehicle facts are reconciled from cached public launch records and catalog metadata. External links are shown only when the upstream rocket record publishes them.
This page combines launch-feed records, launcher configuration metadata, manufacturer catalog records, and recent mission history. When upstream catalog fields are missing, the page falls back to observed launch records instead of inventing specs.
Recent launch records are grouped by orbit, mission type, payload type, crewed status, and launch site so the vehicle page answers what this rocket is actually being used for.
This vehicle page is assembled from public launch-feed rows, Launch Library 2 launcher configuration metadata, manufacturer catalog records, and recent mission history cached by T-Minus Zero.
Use this page for vehicle-level cadence, upcoming schedule, history, payload mix, and anomaly context. Exact launch records own mission timing, status, weather, pad details, streams, and source-specific updates.
The rocket page owns vehicle-level context. Provider pages own organization-level schedules, catalog pages own static vehicle metadata, and launch pages own exact launch records.
Black Arrow was a British satellite carrier rocket. Developed during the 1960s, it was used for four launches between 1969 and 1971. Its final flight was the first and only successful orbital launch to be conducted by the United Kingdom, and placed the Prospero satellite into low Earth orbit.
Tracks timing/status changes for up to the next 20 launches based on the last 120 days of updates.
No upcoming Black Arrow launches scheduled.
The Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) was a British research establishment, known by several different names during its history, that eventually came under the aegis of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), before finally…