Tag: Gilmour Space Technologies

NASA veteran Pamela Melroy joins Gilmour Space board

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Gilmour Space Technologies has added former NASA second-in-command and space shuttle pilot Colonel Pamela Melroy to its board as it pushes ahead with plans of global commercial expansion. The...

Gilmour preps laser communications for validation mission

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Gilmour Space Technologies has signed a long-term strategic partnership with Singapore laser communications startup Transcelestial to integrate and test high-bandwidth communications on its next ElaraSat mission. The companies say...

Super funds, NRF rocket Gilmour Space to unicorn status

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Gold Coast rocket startup Gilmour Space has blasted through a $1 billion valuation after raising $217 million from an all-Australian group of investors led by the National Reconstruction Fund...

Historic Australian rocket crashes shortly after take off

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Gilmour Space Technologies launched its maiden rocket from northern Queensland on Wednesday morning, but it crashed shortly after the historic take-off. The locally designed and manufactured rocket took off...

Gilmour Space delays third launch attempt

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Gilmour Space Technologies has pushed back its latest test flight attempt by 10 days, owing to windy conditions at the site of its Bowen Orbital Spaceport in northern Queensland....

Third time’s a charm: Gilmour readies another launch attempt

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Gilmour Space Technologies engineers were rolling out the company’s Eris three-stage rocket from its vehicle assembly building on Monday evening ahead of its third launch attempt scheduled for Wednesday....

News Wrap: The Horizon Europe giant looms into view

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Academy of Science’s Shine Dome in Canberra was the venue for a detailed and surprisingly upbeat briefing on the Horizon Europe research funding program this week. It...