ASC was the location of NASA's first non-orbital sounding rocket launch from a commercial spaceport outside the United States, which took place on 27 June 2022.
[1] The project took six years to develop, and the small team worked from Canberra to obtain a lease, sign the NASA contract and design the site.
The site's location, only 12 degrees south of the equator, is preferable for orbital rockets launching east, as extra speed is provided due to the spin of Earth.
Scott Wallis, the founder, was a flight test navigator with the Royal Australian Airforce and had experience developing spaceports.
[13][14] The third launch took place on 11 July 2022 at 8:31pm ACST, carrying the fourth DEUCE mission, intended by NASA to investigate and analyze the Alpha Centauri star system's ultraviolet spectrum.