Excitement is building as Gold Coast based Gilmour Space Technologies prepares its Eris rocket for its inaugural flight into space. The company has been teasing the public for weeks about the planned date for the historic launch – the first of a fully Australian developed and manufactured rocket capable of reaching Low Earth Orbit. Australia’s…
Spaceport operator and launch technology infrastructure company, Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Singaporean rocket company Equatorial Space Systems (ESS) to launch Dorado suborbital rockets at the Arnhem Space Centre. ESS has plans for rockets including orbital rockets and the MOU paves the way for a…
The Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in the Northern Territory will see a series of orbital space launches following the signing of a multi-year agreement between space facility operator Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) and Korean aerospace company INNOSPACE. The agreement will see the launch of several INNOSPACE rocket variants each carrying between 50kg and 500kg payloads…
The owner and operator of the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in the Northern Territory is working towards a multi-launch contract with American space transportation and rocket manufacturing company Phantom Space Corporation. Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA), which signed a MOU with Phantom Space in 2022, also envisages an expanded scope and detail of future cooperation to…
Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) has successfully completed its second commercial rocket launch with NASA from its Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in the Northern Territory. A NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket was successfully launched at 11:17 pm ACST July 6, 2022. The launch was for the Suborbital Imaging Spectrograph for Transition region Irradiance from…
Equatorial Launch Australia also plans to construct a larger launch facility, with three launch pads, accommodating larger rockets and payloads. Several more launches are planned this year. The company is aiming to have 50 or more launches a year by 2024 and 2025.
Arnhem Space Centre operator Equatorial Launch Australia has announced that NASA will make history when it makes Australia’s first commercial space launch on the evening of Sunday 26 June 2022. Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA), the operator of the Gove Peninsula, Northern Territory launch site said the launch would also be NASA’s first launch from a…
The Australian-made space weather satellite CUAVA-1 was deployed into orbit from the International Space Station on Wednesday night. Launched to the space station in August aboard a SpaceX rocket, a major focus of this shoebox-sized CubeSat is to study what radiation from the Sun does to Earth’s atmosphere and electronic devices.
Gilmour Space has announced its first Australian customer, Space Machines Company, for a maiden launch scheduled for 2022.
SpaceX has well and truly revolutionised space travel. But what does this mean for the many Australian companies making up a new space sector Down Under?
