Gilmour signs first European customerQuoteGilmour Space Technologies has added another customer to its growing list of clients after confirming it has signed an agreement with German rideshare services provider Exolaunch. The agreement will see the Queensland-based rocket company provide a number of services to Exolaunch to support their cutting-edge satellite deployment, including tailored launch and precise deployment using the Eris hybrid launch vehicle.<snip>Now, adding Gilmour’s launch services to their portfolio will give the European company access to low-inclination missions and unique orbits from a southern hemisphere location, once their launch services commence in 2022.
Gilmour Space Technologies has added another customer to its growing list of clients after confirming it has signed an agreement with German rideshare services provider Exolaunch. The agreement will see the Queensland-based rocket company provide a number of services to Exolaunch to support their cutting-edge satellite deployment, including tailored launch and precise deployment using the Eris hybrid launch vehicle.<snip>Now, adding Gilmour’s launch services to their portfolio will give the European company access to low-inclination missions and unique orbits from a southern hemisphere location, once their launch services commence in 2022.
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New 75 second hybrid engine test, 110 kN: Very much looks like nozzle failure starts from ~37s in the video, with a large chunk blowing off at ~44s. Seems like the nozzle wasn't cooled enough?
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Well, Gilmour didn't win anything at this year's Australian Space Awards (which was a surprise)... but they're hiring!https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au/australian-space-awards/winners/2022-winners-and-finalists
Quote from: CameronD on 03/28/2022 10:42 pmWell, Gilmour didn't win anything at this year's Australian Space Awards (which was a surprise)... but they're hiring!https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au/australian-space-awards/winners/2022-winners-and-finalistsActually, isn't that their Head of Propulsion as the winner in the Innovator of the Year - Individual category? And their employees were also nominated in the Engineer of the Year, Graduate of the Year, and Rising Star of the Year categories.
True, Mathew won on his own account - but the awards the company has collected in the last few years (including the all-important "Launch Business of the Year" category) went to others*. Nominations mean nothing in a game of winner-takes-all.. and as a finalist myself for 3 years in a row, I should know.* = Having successfully launched the first commercial rocket payloads from Australian soil in a very long time from their Koonibba Test Range, Southern Launch were seriously peeved not to win this one! Oh well, there's always next year!
It doesn't have the nozzle you'd want even for a first stage and it still loses pieces as it burns. Long burning ablative nozzles are hard, there are good reasons that the vast majority of expendable liquids don't use them. It's something VG had to put a lot of time and money into. No reason you couldn't put a regen nozzle on a peroxide hybrid, but it is another thing to do before they're ready to fly.I would wager cash that they aren't "launching small satellites into low earth orbits from 2022."I can't find Ed L's blog post on the topic, but good propellant depletion only becomes more important as the number of stages increases. They're baselining a three stage rocket; a few percent difference in utilization can mean a hundred percent difference in payload. Getting perfect and repeatable depletion is much harder than in a solid and seems likely to be harder than in a liquid where you can measure propellant levels directly.
And as for Southern Launch, maybe the fact that they didn't win is a nod to the possibility that that campaign wasn't entirely successful?
Maybe the switch of the 3rd stage to a biprop is an attempt to mitigate depletion concerns?
Possibly.. but given that all Southern Launch are doing is providing the facility, range safety and obtaining the paperwork for someone else - success or failure of the rocket itself is kinda irrelevant, don't you think?
I'd be surprised if they successfully launch it at all.. but, hey, if it keeps people gainfully employed then that can only be a good thing.
Gilmour Space Technologies will give high school students in South-East Queensland the opportunity to help build a CubeSat that will blast off on its Eris rocket next year. The 56 pupils from years 9-11 will work alongside experts from Griffith University on the ‘Platypus’ mission that will use AI to help map natural disaster weather events.It comes as Gilmour is preparing to launch the first Australian-built rocket, Eris, into sub-orbital space by the end of 2022 from the Bowen spaceport in Northern Queensland.This new CubeSat, though, will be designed, programmed and built by students throughout the year during on-site experience days, and at their schools.Its aim is to help natural disaster management preparations by conclusively mapping weather trajectories to illustrate how effects on climate could be monitoredIt will house a camera and temperature sensors to record cloud cover using artificial intelligence to process the image immediately.“Not only will the lucky students engage with STEM professionals and learn about exciting potential careers, they will also be embarking on useful and cutting-edge work that will be valuable for future research and government decision-making,” Professor Possingham said. The Platypus Mission patch itself was designed by Arita Bounnhong, a Mabel Park State High School Year 12 who wanted to include different coloured stars to symbolise the inclusivity and diversity of the people involved in project, and patterns that represented Earth from our perspective in comparison with the perspective of Earth from space."The Platypus mission offers a rare opportunity for students to apply their STEM knowledge and gain hands-on experience in building and operating real tech in space,” said Gilmour Space CEO, Adam Gilmour. "It’s a great way for us to share our passion with the next generation.”
It comes as Gilmour is preparing to launch the first Australian-built rocket, Eris, into sub-orbital space by the end of 2022 from the Bowen spaceport in Northern Queensland.
