abstract
| - The ANZAF Woomera Space Center is an ANZC strategic space port and rocket evaluation center operated by the Department of Defence. The operational manager of the Center is the Commonwealth Air Force (CairF). Administratively, the CAirF Woomera Space Center is a wing-level unit of the CAirF Aerospace Operational Support Group (AOSG) based at CAirF Edinburgh in Adelaide, South Australia. Physically, the ANZAF Woomera Space Center is a 'capability' that includes the following:
* headquarters of the Woomera Space Center (based at CAirF Base Edinburgh, Adelaide, South Australia, with a permanent Range Operations support element based at the Defence Support Centre in Woomera itself),
* The Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA),
* the ANZAF Woomera Airfield (YPWR) - which includes the 'Evetts Field' satellite airfield at Koolymilka,
* Woomera Restricted Airspace (WRX),
* the ANZAF Woomera Test Range Safety and Control Centre all test and evaluation (T&E) trials sites and specially instrutmented test ranges,
* a number of air weapons ranges, target and explosive ordnance (EO) demolition sites,
* the National Electronic Warfare Test Range, and
* ANZC's national Space vehicle launching facilities (with a 600km+ centreline pointing north-west from the Koolymilka rangehead area).
* the Woomera Defence Village (situated in the south-east corner of the WPA)
* the Nurrungar Prohibited Area, and
* Camp Rapier.
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