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LAUNCH and FAILURE of Gilmour Space Eris flight 1 from Bowen Spaceport, Australia at about 2235 UTC Jul 29. Rocket ascended about 50 metres while maintaining vertical attitude but translating sideways, and impacted near pad after a 20 second flight. Image from Aussienaut youtube coverage.
Aussienaut livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4xv0UxIhY
NSF article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/07/eris-testflight1/
After liftoff at 22:35 UTC on July 29, the vehicle slowly cleared the launch tower and drifted to the side before coming back down to Earth.
Tweet from Gilmour Space: https://x.com/GilmourSpace/status/1950350700728504527
TestFlight1 โ Liftoff ๐
Today, Eris became the first #AustralianMade orbital rocket to launch from Australian soil โ ~14s of flight, 23s engine burn.
Big step for ๐ฆ๐บ launch capability. Team safe, data in hand, eyes on TestFlight 2.
(More pics and vids to come from the media.)
https://x.com/GilmourSpace/status/1950395515721711703
Liftoff completed, launch tower cleared, stage 1 tested. Awesome result for a first test launch.