Descrizione : Wresat (Weapons Research Establishment Satellite), built within 11 months by the Australian Weapons Research Establishment, was launched by a surplus Redstone Sparta launch vehicle from Woomera into a 198 km × 1252 km orbit inclined at 83 deg. The 45 kg Australian microsatellite transmitted for 5 days. It reentered after 42 days.

Wresat carried four experiments, which were derived from experiments flown on earlier australian sounding rockets

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