Gilmour scrubs launch attempt today
The Australian rocket startup Gilmour Space has scrubbed its first attempt to launch its Eris rocket from its own Bowen spaceport on the eastern coast of Australia.
Our team identified an issue in the ground support system during overnight checks. We’re now in an extended hold to work through it. Our next target is the Friday morning launch window.
The company has a two week launch window extending through the end of the month. If it can’t launch in that window then it will try again in the second half of June, assuming the bureaucracy of the Australian Space Agency issues a revised licence. It took that government three years to issue this license, so assuming it will work quickly to issue a revision is a dangerous thing.
The company is not providing a live stream of the launch, though it has said it will release a full video after the fact.
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The Australian rocket startup Gilmour Space has scrubbed its first attempt to launch its Eris rocket from its own Bowen spaceport on the eastern coast of Australia.
Our team identified an issue in the ground support system during overnight checks. We’re now in an extended hold to work through it. Our next target is the Friday morning launch window.
The company has a two week launch window extending through the end of the month. If it can’t launch in that window then it will try again in the second half of June, assuming the bureaucracy of the Australian Space Agency issues a revised licence. It took that government three years to issue this license, so assuming it will work quickly to issue a revision is a dangerous thing.
The company is not providing a live stream of the launch, though it has said it will release a full video after the fact.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
No launch today either. Scrubbed for the duration of the current campaign. From the sound of it they triggered the fairing separation while still on the pad. They have to ship in a new fairing before they can try again.
Not to be mean, but I do hope there’s video of it. That might rank up there with Astra’s powerslide in the list of entertaining scrubs of the newspace era.
“Having problems with premature shroud jettisoning? We here at Provasic are standing by to help. The fairing replacement will come in an unmarked brown envelope.”
mkent & Jeff Wright,
Heh to you both. Gilmour shouldn’t be embarrassed by this glitch. Any reader of Eric Berger’s estimable Liftoff will recall that SpaceX had multiple glitches and snafus this bad or worse on the way to finally succeeding with Falcon 1. So when Gilmour finally does reach orbit and earns a seat at the big boy rocketeers table, it will not lack for amusing stories to swap with the others there seated.