We'll have to wait a bit longer for the first-ever launch of an Australian orbital rocket.
Queensland-based company Gilmour Space had aimed to debut its Eris rocket today (May 15), but a problem with the vehicle's payload fairing scuttled that plan.
Gilmour Space Technologies, founded by the brothers Adam and James Gilmour, began its rocket program in 2015.
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 Orbital Spaceport, with the goal of making Australia more of a space player.
Source: www.space.com
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