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

Gilmour Space, a venture-backed startup based in Australia, is about to launch a small rocket from its privately owned ...

Gilmour Space Technologies said an “unexpected power surge” caused the payload fairing anomaly that halted the launch on 15 May. “The payload fairing system was triggered during vehicle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The countdown is on for lift-off at Gilmour Space’s Bowen Spaceport in North Queensland. The launch window is from Thursday morning to Sunday. Picture: Supplied “I think I’ll be extremely ...

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 ...

It’s been a rollercoaster ride for the Gilmour Space Technologies crew after two scrubbed launch attempts in the past week. The Eris TestFlight1 mission has now been put on hold, and most of the team ...

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 ...

An unlikely suspect has emerged during the investigation into the technical issue that caused the first Australian-made ...