This table represents event covers released for the ELDO F-8 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-8 - 3 July 1968 | |||||
| EDO-08a | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | MAY NOT EXIST | 0 |
| EDO-08b | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | MAY NOT EXIST | 0 |
| EDO-08c | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | MAY NOT EXIST1 - Country list in form of a rectangle | 0 |
| EDO-08d | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Green - Shows drawing of rocket launch | 4 |
| EDO-08e | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | MAY NOT EXIST | 0 |
| EDO-08f | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | MAY NOT EXIST | 0 |
| EDO-08g | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Red & Green or Red & Blue2 - Arthur Bergen cover shows a rocket in flight. | 0 |
| EDO-08ga | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | A Forces Air Letter version of EDO-08g | 0 |
| EDO-08h | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Black - 'F-8 Launched from Woomera .... Shows a satellite. An airmail version exists. A version exists with added drawings of the rocket stages. | 0 |
| EDO-08i | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Black - Max Chittan cachet shows map of Australia and ELDO/CECLES & ESRO/CERS emblems plus text | 0 |
| EDO-08j | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Yellow & Red Orbit cover- shows rocket, ELDO emblem and national flags | 0 |
| EDO-08k | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | MAY NOT EXIST | 0 |
| EDO-08l | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Greyscale - Shows photo of rocket launch. Copies signed by various team members exist. | 4 |
| EDO-08m | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Red & Green - Shows stage 3 in space - Note the addressee is the E.L.D.O. Mess. | 0 |
| EDO-08n | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Hand painted globe showing Australia plus flags of four countries | 0 |
| EDO-08o | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | B&W - small cachet shows rockets & satellites in atomic like orbits | 0 |
| EDO-08p | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | A variety of general FDCs exist such as this Australia Post cover. Also this Wesley Cover Service cover. And this Erskine Stamp Service (ESS) cover. | 4 |
| EDO-08q | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Blue - McDonell paste on cachet shows the rocket on its pad. | 0 |
| EDO-08r | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Long airmail envelope with black cachet showing rocket and ELDO emblem. | 0 |
| EDO-08s | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Green - Simple text cachet | 0 |
| EDO-08t | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Light Green - Rocket over map of Europe | 0 |
| EDO-08u | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Green - Cleveland Astro cover | 0 |
| EDO-08v | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Black - Shows rocket in flight | 0 |
| EDO-08w | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Greyscale - Philips Telemetry Guidance Programme Unit cachet shows a rocket. An airmail version exists. | 0 |
| EDO-08x | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Pink - German Ikarus cover shows a tracking radar | 0 |
| EDO-08y | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Black - Aboriginal with Boomerang, spears and shield plus text cachet. An airmail version exists. And an airmail version on a long cover also exists. | 0 |
| EDO-08z | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Maroon - General Conquest of Space Cachet | 0 |
| EDO-08aa | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Maroon - Simple text cachet EUROPA 1 Launching | 0 |
| EDO-08ab | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Black - Airmail letter with Aboriginal and map of Australia | 0 |
| EDO-08ac | Launch | Woomera | Woomera Rocket Range | Greyscale - German 'AK'airmail cover shows rocket in Space. A signed version exists. | 0 |
| Tracking Covers have special Woomera ELDO postmark (except DRGTS Gove) plus station cachet - most are hard to find | |||||
| EDO-T8a | Tracking | Woomera | Weapons Research Establishment (WRE) | Greyscale - EDO-08l with purple WRE cachet | 4 |
| EDO-T8b | Tracking | Woomera | Mirikata | Greyscale - EDO-08l with red Mirikata cachet | 3 |
| EDO-T8c | Tracking | Woomera | DSS/41 | Greyscale - EDO-08l with Black DSS/41 dish cachet. Also exists as Purple. | 3 |
| EDO-T8d | Tracking | Woomera | Baker-Nunn | Greyscale - EDO-08l with Black pictorial Baker-Nunn cachet. Also exists as Purple. | 3 |
| EDO-T8e | Tracking | Woomera | Red Lake | Greyscale - Black EDO-08l with red Red Lake text cachet. | 3 |
| EDO-T8f | Tracking | Woomera | Lake Hart | Red - Lake Hart pictorial cachet only | 3 |
| EDO-T8g | Tracking | Darwin | DRGTS Gove | Black - EDO-08c with black DRGTS Gove text cachet | 3 |
| EDO-T8h | Tracking | Darwin | DRGTS Gove + Red Lake | Black - EDO-08c with both DRGTS and Red Lake pictorial cachets | 0 |
Notes
1) Only seen on some Tracking covers such as EDO-T8g and EDO-T8h
2) Seen on eBay
3) A version with slightly more text exists. See this registered version.
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