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What does it take to make a country join the rarefied ranks of orbital launch providers? For Australia, the answer came in a cloud of smoke and an agonizingly brief, hard-fought 14 seconds of airtime.

The first Australian-made orbital rocket to launch from the land down under barely took off for its inaugural test flight, ending roughly 14 seconds after liftoff. Australian startup Gilmour Space ...

Rocket science being difficult is more than a comedic cliché. It's as hard as President Kennedy said it was in the early 1960s. Gilmour Space took Australia's first orbital rocket to the launch pad ...

The first Australian -made rocket to attempt to reach orbit from the country's soil crashed after 14 seconds of flight on Wednesday. The rocket Eris, launched by Gilmour Space Technologies, was the ...

The first Australian-made rocket to attempt to reach orbit from the country’s soil crashed after 14 seconds of flight on Wednesday. The rocket Eris, launched by Gilmour Space Technologies, was the ...