Gilmour Space Technologies has unveiled a new 3D printed liquid rocket engine that will power the third stage of the firm’s Eris rocket to orbit. The company today shared a video of a successful, 190-second, Mission Duty Cycle (or mission duration) test fire of its new, regeneratively-cooled, liquid rocket engine. (Watch the test fire via […]
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Gilmour Space Wins Million$$ Contract To Build and + Launch Prototype Australian Defence Satellite
Australia’s largest space company, Gilmour Space Technologies, has been selected to develop and launch a new sovereign surveillance satellite for the Department of Defence, as part of the government’s $7 billion investment in new space capabilities. Australia’s Minister for Defence, Peter Dutton, announced the $15 million partnership with Gilmour Space, highlighting the government’s commitment to […]
KSAT Will Support Gilmour Space With The Launch Of The Eris Launch Vehicle, Plus, KSAT To Provide S-a-a-S For ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite
The launch is scheduled for this year and KSAT will provide Launch- and LEOP Services to one of the leading space companies in Australia. Gilmour Space Technologies is pioneering new and innovative hybrid propulsion technologies that offers lower cost access to space. The venture-backed rocket company is developing new capabilities for launching small satellites to […]
LatConnect 60 + Gilmour Space Now Engaged In Hyperspectral EO Smallsats Development
LatConnect 60 (LC60) has signed an agreement to work with Gilmour Space Technologies in Queensland, Australia, to build and launch the first smallsat in a planned, high-resolution, hyperspectral imaging constellation. These smart smallsats will be placed in 30-degree inclined orbits for frequent revisit data capture over the Earth’s equatorial and mid-latitude regions. Executives from the […]
Australian Federal Government Awards Gilmour Space A Million$$$ Grant
A $157 million bid, led by Queensland, Australia-based Gilmour Space Technologies to grow sovereign space manufacturing in Australia, has been awarded the largest Modern Manufacturing Initiative Collaboration (MMIC) grant for space by the Federal Government. Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction, Angus Taylor MP, said in a statement that the Government’s $52 million co-investment in the […]
Gilmour Space, SENER Aeroespacial To Develop Autonomous Flight Termination System For Eris rocket
SENER Aeroespacial, a company of the SENER engineering and technology group, and Australian launch services company Gilmour Space Technologies, are working together on an Autonomous Flight Termination System (AFTS) for the Eris launch vehicle, which is being developed for the small satellite market. The AFTS is a smart Hardware/Software unit with autonomous decision-making capacity responsible for aborting […]
Gilmour Space Test Fires The Largest Rocket Engine Developed In Australia
Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies have greeted the new year with a successful,110-kilonewton test fire of the most powerful rocket engine ever developed in Australia. The 75-second test was a major milestone for Gilmour Space, which is developing rockets that will, over the next five years, be capable of launching 300- to 4,000-kilogram satellites […]
Gilmour Space + Exolaunch Sign Smallsat Launch Agreements
Gilmour Space Technologies and Exolaunch now have a series of agreements for smallsat launch, deployment and in-space transportation services. Under the agreements, the companies will join forces to provide tailored launch, precise deployment and in-space transportation services to the smallsat operators using Eris, a hybrid launch vehicle, developed by Gilmour. Gilmour partners with Exolaunch, a […]
Gilmour Space Corrals Million$$ In Series C Private Equity Investments
Gilmour Space Technologies has secured AUD$61 million (approximately $47 million) from global investors in what is the largest private equity investment raised by a space company in Australia. The Series C round, which includes US-based Fine Structure Ventures, Australian venture capital firms Blackbird and Main Sequence, and Australian superannuation funds HESTA, Hostplus, and NGS Super, […]
Five Year Collaboration Between Gilmour Space + DEWC To Develop Space-Based, EW System
DEWC Systems and Australian launch services company Gilmour Space Technologies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch the next generation Miniaturized Orbital Electronic Warfare Sensor Systems (MOESS) system as a sovereign, space-based, Electronic Warfare (EW) system. In a bid to increase Australia’s Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare (ISREW) capability, DEWC Systems and […]