The payload fairing at the top of Gilmour Space's first Eris rocket was supposed to deploy a few minutes after lifting off ...

The company has been busy over the past decade. For example, it developed the 82-foot-tall (25-meter-tall) Eris and built a private launch site on the coast of northern Queensland, called the Bowen ...

Gilmour Space Technology was supposed to launch its Eris rocket into space, which would have been the first launch of an ...

The company behind the first ever Australian-built rocket have identified the issue that caused last month’s launch delay.

The fairing enshrouds the rocket's payload during ascent and is usually jettisoned once the atmosphere is thin enough that there is no risk to the payload. That typically happens much higher up than ...

Gold Coast-based Gilmour Space Technologies had been given a two-week window clearance, which began yesterday, to launch its 23-metre Eris rocket from a purpose-built pad in the north Queensland ...

Welcome to Edition 7.44 of the Rocket Report! We had some interesting news on Thursday afternoon from Down Under. As Gilmour Space was preparing for the second launch attempt of its Eris vehicle, as ...

Cow paddocks, Vegemite and now a cockatoo — Gilmour Space Technologies’ latest failed rocket launch couldn’t get more Aussie.

Gilmour Space Technologies has postponed the launch of Australia’s first locally-built orbital rocket, after a “pre-launch anomaly” unexpectedly opened its nose cone. The company hoped to ...

Gilmour Space Technologies plans on launching its Eris rocket on Thursday, May 15 between 7.30am and 5.30pm, though marketing and communications manager Michelle Gilmour said the timing could ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Space. Followed categories will be added to My News. Friday could now mark a historic moment in Australia’s budding space ambitions with maverick ...

Gilmour Space Technologies Eris rocket launch window was delayed twice. Image: Supplied The confirmation of what caused the anomaly came after internal investigations revealed an unexpected ...