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Maiden Flight

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Low Earth Orbit Eris Pad Bowen Orbital Spaceport

Maiden flight of Gilmour Space's orbital launch vehicle Eris.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • July 29, 2025, 11:20 p.m.

Launch failure.


LL2 • July 29, 2025, 9:07 p.m.

Unofficial Webcast by Launch Heaven has started


Cosmic_Penguin • July 29, 2025, 5:25 a.m.

Scrubbed for the day.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 29, 2025, 5:02 a.m.

New T-0.



Eris-1

Family:
Configuration: 1

Eris is a 3 stage orbital launch vehicle designed to deliver up to 305kg into a low earth orbit.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
    25.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    1.5 m
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Eris-1
  • Family
  • Variant
    1
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Eris Block 1
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    305.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    215.0 kg

Gilmour Space Technologies

Gilmour Space Technologies

(GST)

CEO: Adam Gilmour Founded: 2013 Successes: 0 Failures: 1 Pending: 1

Agency Type:

Gilmour Space Technologies is a venture-funded Australian space company headquartered in Queensland, Australia that is developing hybrid-engine rockets and associated technology to support the development of a low-cost space launch vehicle.

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