Gilmour space, which is a Australian -based startup, is launching a small rocket from its private -owned space port on a remote part of the country’s northeast coast.
This is the first time someone has tried to reach orbit with a designed and built rocket in Australia. The three phase rocket, named Ers, could launch at any time during a 10 -hour window on Friday, on Friday, local time. In the United States, the launch window runs on Thursday at 5:30 pm to 3:30 pm on Friday.
Gillemor said on Wednesday, it came after a 24 -hour delay due to the “problem in the ground support system” for the launch.
The first launch of the Gilmour’s Ers Rocket is a completely full -fledged flight. Gilmore has tested rocket engines and practiced the countdown last year, loaded the propellant and obtained within 10 seconds of launch. But Gillemor warned in a post on LinkedIn early Wednesday that “test launch is complicated.” “Weather, system examination, or technical issues can delay flight – sometimes for hours, days or more,” Gillemor added on social media.
Gillemor, based in Australia’s Gold Coast, was founded in 2012 by two brothers – Adam and James Gilmour, who came into the space industry after a career in banking and marketing. Today, more than 200 people, most engineers and technicians work in Gilmore. Most are the recent graduates of engineering in the 20s, as well as a handful of troops from a handful of space industry with rocket lab, firefly aerospace, Aiyas, and Airbus companies.
The company has raised about $ 90 million, primarily from venture capital firms, to get the first Irus rocket until the launch pad. The fund was also paid for the construction of the Bone Arbital Space Port in Gilmore in the Australian state of Queensland. In addition to launching vehicles, Gilmore is working on its own satellite platform, which can be launched on Arses or foreign rockets.