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The de Havilland Propellers Blue Streak was a British Intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), and later the first stage of the Europa satellite launch vehicle. Blue Streak was cancelled without entering full production.
May 10, 2006 · Learn about the history and development of the Blue Streak rocket, a liquid-fuelled missile that was part of Britain's nuclear capability and later became a European space launcher. Watch a video podcast and read a transcript of the story of Blue Streak from its first test to its final flight.
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First designed as a ballistic missile, then adapted to launch satellites, Blue Streak was Britain’s contribution to the Space Race. First launched in 1964 at the Woomera test site in South Australia, Blue Streak performed as planned for eleven successful launches.
Apr 19, 2018 · Its attempt to build the Blue Streak ballistic missile was abandoned in 1960, for instance, ultimately in favour of America's Polaris submarine-launched missile system.
Blue Streak was a Cold War era experimental British missile, later it became the vital first stage of the first European space launcher. The project to develop the vehicle began in the mid-1950s.
Nov 27, 2019 · Spadeadam was a remote site in Cumbria where the UK developed and tested the Blue Streak intermediate-range ballistic missile in the 1950s. The project was cancelled in 1960 and the site was abandoned, leaving behind traces of its ambitious and futile history.
Apr 17, 2002 · Spadeadam was opened in the late 1950s as a test area for the British Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM). The research program was split between Rolls Royce and Dehavilland (later Hawker Siddley). Dehavilland were responsible for the airframe and Rolls Royce for the RZ 2 rocket engines.
