Today's launch was the first orbital attempt of any kind from Australian soil in more than 50 years. The most recent such flight came in October of 1971, when a British Black Arrow rocket successfully ...

Gilmour Space Technologies attempted to launch its rocket from a spaceport in the north Queensland community of Bowen in an ...

Gilmour Space Technologies had earlier said it would consider the launch a success if the rocket left the ground ...

The Gold Coast-based company bolsters its board as the start-up launches a $100 million-plus capital raising to put its next ...

On Tuesday (July 29), at 8:35 a.m. local time (6:35 p.m. ET), the private Australian company Gilmour Space Technologies launched the first of its Eris-class rockets from Bowen Orbital Spaceport in ...

Gilmour Space was founded in 2012 and began developing its Eris rocket and motors in 2018. After many delays throughout 2024, it finally got approval for launch testing in 2025. T ...

Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a ...

Gilmour Space made history today (July 29), conducting the first-ever orbital launch attempt with an Australian-built rocket. That vehicle, named Eris, didn't get very far.

The first Australian -made rocket to attempt to reach orbit from the country’s soil crashed after 14 seconds of flight on Wednesday. The rocket Eris, launched by Gilmour Space Technologies, was ...

Gilmour Space Technologies had planned previous launches of the rocket, in May and earlier this month, but called off those operations because of technical issues and bad weather.