page_title: Waxwing (rocket motor)
hierarchical_section_title: Waxwing (rocket motor)
caption_attribution_description: Black Arrow launch vehicle deploying the W:Prospero X-3 satellite. On display at the Science Museum, London
context_page_description: Waxwing was a British solid rocket motor used for apogee kick as the 3rd stage of the Black Arrow satellite launch vehicles.
  Waxwing was used to successfully place the Prospero X-3 satellite into low Earth orbit on 28 October 1971, Britain's only satellite launch on an indigenously-developed launch vehicle.
  Another use of Waxwing was to increase the velocity of test re-entry vehicles on Black Knight during tests for the Blue Streak missile.
context_section_description: Waxwing was a British solid rocket motor used for apogee kick as the 3rd (upper) stage of the Black Arrow satellite launch vehicles.
  Waxwing was used to successfully place the Prospero X-3 satellite into low Earth orbit on 28 October 1971, Britain's only satellite launch on an indigenously-developed launch vehicle.
  Another use of Waxwing was to increase the velocity of test re-entry vehicles on Black Knight during tests for the Blue Streak missile.
caption: Black Arrow satellite deployment, with Waxwing upper stage.
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