Visit to Southern Launch and the Koonibba Test Range
2026.11.4.~5., South Australia
APL members visited Southern Launch in South Australia on November 4–5, including a site tour of the Koonibba Test Range, where reentry capsules are recovered after returning from orbit. The team saw the range facilities and ground equipment that support capsule recovery operations.
By coincidence, Varda Space Industries' W-8 capsule returned to the Koonibba Test Range just after the visit, at 00:05 local time on November 6. Seongil Seo, who was in Adelaide that night, captured the reentry trail across the sky (last photo).
