This table represents event covers released for the ELDO F-5 rocket launch from the Woomera Rocket Range, South Australia. Australia Post produced a special illustrative postmark for this launch.
| Designation | Type | Postmark | Station | Description | Rarity |
| ELDO F-5 - 15 November 1966 | |||||
| EDO-05a | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Blue-Gold-Green - Shows rocket & map of Australia | 3 |
| EDO-05b | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Green - Shows rocket & map of Australia | 3 |
| EDO-05c | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Aqua - Country list in form of a rectangle | 3 |
| EDO-05d | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Black - Shows drawing of rocket launch - Designed by Peter K Stalley for Australian Philatelic Dealers and Traders | 3 |
| EDO-05e | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Purple - Shows map of Australia & rocket | 3 |
| EDO-05f | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Purple - A.I.D.A. Text cachet in circle | 0 |
| EDO-05g2 | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Green & Black or Red & Black with an ELDO text cachet. Red & Black2 has both the ELDO and launched cachets. Arthur Bergen covers show a rocket on its pad. | 3 |
| EDO-05ga1 | Participant | FPO 1033 | Field Post Office | Black, Green & Red Bergen cover. Posted from the Field Post Office in South Australia with a British stamp. Arthur Bergen cover shows a radio dish. This was at BFPO 151 - RAAF Station Edinburgh Field, Adelaide, South Australia, hence also the B.F.P.O. ADELAIDE cachet. | |
| EDO-05h | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Black - 'Cover posted at Woomera .... ELDO Europa Rocket' plus a rocket launch. And an airmail example. | 0 |
| EDO-05i | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Max Chittan Kangaroo & Rocket cachet | 0 |
| EDO-05j | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | MAY NOT EXIST | 0 |
| EDO-05k | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Greyscale - Shows rocket launch | 0 |
| EDO-05l | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Small aqua rocket cachet | 0 |
| EDO-05m | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | NOT USED | 0 |
| EDO-05n | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Multicolour paste on cachet shows one of the Woomera tracking stations on a registered cover. Possibly one of a kind. | 0 |
| EDO-05o | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Similar to EDO-05n but with monochrome paste on showing Woomera launch pads | 0 |
| EDO-05p | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | A variety of general FDCs are known such as the Wesley cover. And this Wombeyn Cover Service cachet. | 3 |
| EDO-05q | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Similar to EDO-05n but with greyscale paste on showing the location of Woomera on a map of Australia. | 0 |
| EDO-05r | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Multicolour - Shows rocket on pad | 0 |
| EDO-05s | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | On a rare Lettercard | 1 |
| EDO-05t | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Aerogram | 0 |
| EDO-05u | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Green -Cleveland Astro cover | 0 |
| Tracking Covers have special Woomera ELDO postmark plus station cachet - all are extremely rare | |||||
| EDO-T5a | Tracking | Woomera | Weapons Research Establishment (WRE) | Aqua - Country list in form of a rectangle | 1 |
| EDO-T5b | Tracking | Woomera | Mirikata | Aqua - Country list in form of a rectangle | 1 |
| EDO-T5c | Tracking | Woomera | DSS/41 | Black - Drawing of rocket launch | 1 |
| EDO-T5d | Tracking | Woomera | Baker-Nunn | Aqua - Country list in form of a rectangle | 1 |
| EDO-T5e | Tracking | Woomera | Red Lake | Aqua - Country list in form of a rectangle | 1 |
Notes
1) Sold on eBay in 2020
2) From Simon Cronk's website
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