Gilmour Space - Eris
| Launcher name |
Eris |
| Launcher status |
Development |
| First launch |
2025 |
| Launch delay |
First announced launch: 2020 |
| Launch cost |
$7M |
| Cost per kg |
32560 $/kg |
| Performance |
215 kg |
| Propellant type |
Hybrid |
| Photos |
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| Photo sources |
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| Company name |
Gilmour Space |
| Oneliner |
GILMOUR SPACE is a venture-backed Australian launch services company developing new capabilities for launching small satellites to space.
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| Notes |
- Gilmour partners with Exolaunch, a trusted and experienced rideshare specialist with a solid flight heritage, and gains access to Exolaunch’s flight-proven cutting-edge small satellite deployment technologies and in-space transportation services via Exolaunch’s Reliant orbital transfer vehicle to expand the capabilities of Eris in low Earth orbit and beyond. Partnering with Gilmour, Exolaunch gains access to low-inclination missions and unique orbits via Gilmour’s innovative Eris launch vehicles lifting-off from Australian soil and will begin manifesting customers’ satellites on the upcoming launches of Eris.
- A $157 million bid led by Gilmour Space Technologies to grow sovereign space manufacturing in Australia has been awarded the largest Federal Modern Manufacturing Initiative – Collaboration (MMIC) grant for Space.
- Commercial Space Technologies Ltd (CST) has signed an agreement with Australian launch provider, Gilmour Space Technologies, to offer a launch capacity of up to 50 kilograms on their Eris Block 1 vehicle.
- Australian launch services company, Gilmour Space Technologies, has announced that it will launch a dedicated rideshare mission into low earth orbit (LEO) in late 2024.
- Australia’s largest space start-up says a 20,000-page application to launch has delayed it firing its first rocket into orbit by as much as three months.
- Fresh capital fuels Queensland’s space race as Gilmour eyes launch, 2024-02-19.
- Gilmour Space announces mid-March target for first Eris launch, 2025-02-24.
- As of 2025-05-04: "Subject to final clearance from the Australian Space Agency, we’re targeting a launch window of No Earlier Than (NET) May 15, 2025 for the maiden test flight of our Eris orbital launch vehicle."
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| Funding |
$168
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| Location |
Australia, Singapore |
| Founded |
2012 |
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Last modified: 2025-05-04
