Europa I Launch Vehicle
Europa I was the three-stage ELDO launcher assembled from Blue Streak, Coralie, and Astris stages. Its programme progressed from single-stage and inert-stage tests to three complete orbital attempts at Woomera; F7, F8, and F9 each failed for a different upper-stage or fairing reason.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Europa 1ELDO A
- Family Name
- Europa I
- Full Name
- Europa I Launch Vehicle
- Status
- retired
- Type
- rocket
Details
- Description
- Europa I was the three-stage ELDO launcher assembled from Blue Streak, Coralie, and Astris stages. Its programme progressed from single-stage and inert-stage tests to three complete orbital attempts at Woomera; F7, F8, and F9 each failed for a different upper-stage or fairing reason.
- Dimensions
- Diameter M
- 3.05
- Height M
- 31.7
- First Flight Year
- 1,964
- Last Flight Year
- 1,970
- Parent Vehicle Family
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Nested value
- Rocket Specs
- Liftoff Mass Kg
- 104,000
- Payload Capacity Kg
- Leo
- 850
- Reusability
- expendable
- Stages Count
- 3
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- Creation Time
- July 13, 2026 at 12:29:12 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 15:36:56 UTC
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- Search Name
- Europa I Launch Vehicle Europa 1 ELDO A