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Woomera () originally refers to: * Woomera (spear-thrower), an Indigenous Australian spear-throwing tool Woomera may also refer to: Places Australia South Australia * RAAF Woomera Range Complex, a major Australian military and civil aerospace facility and operation **RAAF Base Woomera, an operational Royal Australian Air Force military airbase located within the RAAF Woomera Range Complex ** Woomera Launch Area 5, a rocket launch site on the RAAF Woomera Range Complex *Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (IRPC), a former immigration detention centre *Woomera, South Australia, a gazetted locality; also known as "Woomera Village" Elsewhere * 11195 Woomera, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1999 *Woomera (crater), a crater on Mars Technology *Woomera protocol, is a VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP ...
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Woomera (spear-thrower)
A woomera is a wooden Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device. Similar to an atlatl, it serves as an extension of the human arm, enabling a spear to travel at a greater speed and force than possible with only the arm. Name The word "woomera" comes from the Dharug language of the Eora people of the Sydney basin. The name was adopted for the town of Woomera, South Australia, founded in 1947 as the home of the Anglo-Australian Long Range Weapons Establishment, also known as the "Woomera Rocket Range" and now called RAAF Woomera Range Complex. Description The woomera is in length. One end is wide and possessing a hollow, curved cross-section not unlike an airfoil, while the other is more pointed and has a hook. Some woomera were traditionally decorated with incised or painted designs that indicated belonging to a particular linguistic group that it may be returned to if found abandoned. Use Records show that the implement began to be used about 5,000 years ago, although ...
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RAAF Woomera Range Complex
The RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC) is a major Australian military and civil aerospace facility and operation located in South Australia, approximately north-west of Adelaide. The WRC is operated by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), a division of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The complex has a land area of or roughly the size of North Korea or Pennsylvania. The airspace above the area is restricted and controlled by the RAAF for safety and security. The WRC is a highly specialised ADF test and evaluation capability operated by the RAAF for the purposes of testing defence materiel. The complex has been variously known as the Anglo-Australian Long Range Weapons Establishment and then the Woomera Rocket Range; the RAAF Woomera Test Range and in 2013, the facility was reorganised and renamed to the RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC). The ground area of the WRC is defined by the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) and includes the Nurrungar Test Area (NTA); with a land area of ...
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RAAF Base Woomera
RAAF Base Woomera (WMA), was proclaimed by Chief of Air Force Directive in January 2015. RAAF Base Woomera and the RAAF Woomera Test Range (WTR) are the two formations which make up the RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC). RAAF Base Woomera consists of two sectors, 'Base Sector North' which is a restricted access area and includes Camp Rapier. the entrance to the Woomera Test Range and the RAAF Woomera Airfield . 'Base Sector South' is accessible by the public and essentially encompasses that part of RAAF Base Woomera long referred to as the ''Woomera Village''. Woomera Village is often quoted as a 'remote town'. It is not a 'town', but rather an 'open base' of the RAAF. The 'village' has previously always functioned as an Australian Government/Defence Force garrison facility until it was fully incorporated into RAAF Base Woomera in 2015. Operations RAAF Base Woomera is an operational Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military airbase located within the RAAF Woomera Range Comp ...
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Woomera Launch Area 5
Launch Area 5 (LA5) is an operational site at the RAAF Woomera Test Range which forms the primary operational capability of the Woomera Range Complex. Originally LA5 was a rocket launch site which supported a number of British experimental launches, including the United Kingdom's first, and only, satellite launch. It consisted of three separate launch pads, which supported 22 Black Knight sounding rocket launches, and four Black Arrow carrier rocket launches. Of the four Black Arrow launches, two were orbital launches, the first of which, on 2 September 1970, failed, and the second, on 28 October 1971, succeeded, placing the Prospero satellite into low Earth orbit A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of the artificial objects in outer space are in LEO, with an altitude never mor ....See: Peter Morton, 'Fire Across the Desert', AGPS 1989 Referenc ...
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Woomera Immigration Reception And Processing Centre
The Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (IRPC) was an Australian immigration detention facility near the village of Woomera in South Australia. It was opened in November 1999 in response to an increase in unauthorised arrivals, which had exceeded the capacity of other detention facilities. It was originally intended to hold 400 people, however at its peak in April 2000 it had nearly 1,500 detainees. After ongoing public pressure in response to several well publicised riots from 2000, accusations of human rights abuses, and capacity issues, the centre closed in April 2003. The site was rebuilt during 2003, and then handed back to the Australian Department of Defence. The facility was renamed "Camp Rapier" in 2004 and has only supported Defence activities on the Woomera Test Range since that time. For much of its time in operation, the facility was an immigration detention centre, it was run by Australasian Correctional Management (ACM), a subsidiary of Wacken ...
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Woomera, South Australia
Woomera, unofficially Woomera village, refers to the domestic area of RAAF Base Woomera. Woomera village has always been a Defence-owned and operated facility. The village is located on the traditional lands of the Kokatha people in the Far North region of South Australia, but is on Commonwealth-owned land and within the area designated as the 'Woomera Prohibited Area' (WPA). The village is approximately north of Adelaide. In common usage, "Woomera" refers to the wider RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC), a large Australian Defence Force aerospace and systems testing range (the 'Woomera Test Range' (WTR)) covering an area of approximately and is operated by the Royal Australian Air Force. Woomera 'village' is part of RAAF Base Woomera which, along with the ''Woomera Test Range'' (WTR), forms the larger entity known as the Woomera Range Complex (WRC), promulgated by Chief of Air Force (CAF) in June 2014. As at the the Woomera Village had a population of 146, and its usual pop ...
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Woomera (crater)
Woomera () originally refers to: * Woomera (spear-thrower), an Indigenous Australian spear-throwing tool Woomera may also refer to: Places Australia South Australia * RAAF Woomera Range Complex, a major Australian military and civil aerospace facility and operation **RAAF Base Woomera, an operational Royal Australian Air Force military airbase located within the RAAF Woomera Range Complex ** Woomera Launch Area 5, a rocket launch site on the RAAF Woomera Range Complex *Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (IRPC), a former immigration detention centre *Woomera, South Australia, a gazetted locality; also known as "Woomera Village" Elsewhere * 11195 Woomera, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1999 *Woomera (crater), a crater on Mars Technology *Woomera protocol, is a VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP ...
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Woomera Protocol
Woomera () originally refers to: * Woomera (spear-thrower), an Indigenous Australian spear-throwing tool Woomera may also refer to: Places Australia South Australia *RAAF Woomera Range Complex, a major Australian military and civil aerospace facility and operation **RAAF Base Woomera, an operational Royal Australian Air Force military airbase located within the RAAF Woomera Range Complex **Woomera Launch Area 5, a rocket launch site on the RAAF Woomera Range Complex *Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (IRPC), a former immigration detention centre *Woomera, South Australia, a gazetted locality; also known as "Woomera Village" Elsewhere * 11195 Woomera, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1999 *Woomera (crater), a crater on Mars Technology *Woomera protocol, is a VoIP tool allowing support of multiple VoIP protocols Military *CAC Woomera The CAC Woomera, also known as the CAC CA-4 and CAC CA-11, was an Australian bomber aircraft that was designed and const ...
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VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms Internet telephony, broadband telephony, and broadband phone service specifically refer to the provisioning of communications services (voice, fax, SMS, voice-messaging) over the Internet, rather than via the public switched telephone network (PSTN), also known as plain old telephone service (POTS). Overview The steps and principles involved in originating VoIP telephone calls are similar to traditional digital telephony and involve signaling, channel setup, digitization of the analog voice signals, and encoding. Instead of being transmitted over a circuit-switched network, the digital information is packetized and transmission occurs as IP packets over a packet-switched network. They transport media streams using special media delivery protocols t ...
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