What does it take to make a country join the rarefied ranks of orbital launch providers? For Australia, the answer came in a cloud of smoke and an agonizingly brief, hard-fought 14 seconds of airtime. On July 29, 2025, Gilmour Space’s Eris rocket ...

In a bit of an oops, Australia's return to space after almost 54 years hasn't exactly gone to plan. On July 30, 2025 at the Bowen Orbital Spaceport in North Queensland, Gilmour Space Technologies' Eris rocket crashed just 14 seconds after launch.

Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a long-shot attempt to reach orbit with the country’s first homegrown launch vehicle. The 82-foot-tall (25-meter) Eris rocket ignited ...

In 1967, the U.S. donated the Sparta rocket to Australia, and it succeeded in launching Australia's first orbital satellite. Its second was launched in 1971 using the British Black Arrow rocket. Since then, no rocket has successfully launched a satellite ...

The first Australian-made orbital rocket to launch from the land down under barely took off for its inaugural test flight, ending roughly 14 seconds after liftoff. Australian startup Gilmour Space launched its Eris rocket for the first time from the ...

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A Russian rocket body fell back to Earth near southern Australia on Monday night (Aug. 7), putting on quite a show for observers in the region. The crashing rocket generated a "fireball and sonic boom that rattled homes across Victoria," 7 News Australia ...