Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) today successfully completed Australia’s first commercial space launch with NASA. The historic launch was NASA’s first from a fully commercial spaceport and is the first of three planned launches, with the other two scheduled for 4 and 12 July. The aim of the missions is to conduct astrophysical studies that can only be done from the Southern Hemisphere. ELA is the developer, owner and operator of the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory.