Tag: Gilmour Space Technologies

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Gilmour lands $17.6m Air Force contract

Queensland rocket company Gilmour Space Technologies has landed its largest ever Defence contract, inking a $17.6 million deal to provide the Air Force with launch engineering services and R&D for its future capabilities. Gilmour, which is targeting a test flight of its own three-stage orbital vehicle within months, secured...

Gilmour Space secures extra $55m ahead of first launch

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Queensland-based rocket maker Gilmour Space Technologies has raised an additional $55 million in capital to support ongoing development work as its first launch draws closer. Gilmour plans to use...

Countdown: Cyclone Kirrily a near miss for Gilmour

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Gilmour Space Technologies says its Bowen Orbital Spaceport facility has largely escaped any damage from tropical cyclone Kirrily, which is wreaking havoc in parts of Queensland, and would not...

Countdown: Gilmour Space gears up for maiden launch

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Activity at the Bowen Orbital Spaceport has ramped up in the new year, with final construction and assembly of launch site infrastructure underway ahead of the maiden launch of...

Defence readies release of new space capability strategy

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Department of Defence is nearing completion of a new Space Capability Program strategy, with local industry expected to be briefed “before December”. Head of Space Command Air Vice-Marshall...

$50m in CRC grants for quantum, turbines and chicken research

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Chicken breeding, quantum computing and wind turbine recycling are among 24 projects sharing in $50 million of funding from the federal government’s long running industry-led research program. To be...

A $56.5m federal grant lands for a rocket to take off

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The stars are beginning to align for the maiden flight of the first Australian-designed orbital vehicle, which is being built on the Gold Coast in Queensland by local upstart...

Defence, space and the drive toward national self-reliance

Posted on   |  by David McClure
Debates about the notional definition of sovereign capability has entered mainstream policy debates over the past two years. The impact that Covid and the economic crisis that it wrought...

Ambition: An InnovationAus.com documentary

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It seems like everyone is aware that something interesting is going on at Gilmour Space Technologies’ manufacturing facility on the Gold Coast, but until you actually see it, it’s...