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Australia’s 1st-ever rocket crashes

Australia’s First Rocket Crashes and Burns Seconds After Liftoff
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.
Australia’s first orbital-class rocket stalled seconds after liftoff
The last attempt to launch a satellite from Australian soil was in 1971, when the British Black Arrow rocket lifted off from a military range in South Australia and placed a UK-built satellite into orbit. Gilmour is leading the charge to bring orbital launches back to Australia, this time with a domestic rocket.
First Australian-made rocket crashes after 14 seconds of flight in a failed attempt to reach orbit
The first Australian-made rocket to attempt to reach orbit from the country's soil has crashed after 14 seconds of flight.
Australia’s first-ever rocket crashes after just 14 seconds of flight
Australia’s first-ever rocket crashes after just 14 seconds of flight - Gilmour Space Technologies had earlier said it would consider the launch a success if the rocket left the ground
Australia’s first orbital rocket crashes
The rocket Eris, launched by Gilmour Space Technologies, was the first Australian-designed and manufactured orbital launch vehicle to lift off from the country and was designed to carry small satellites to orbit. It launched early Wednesday morning near the small town of Bowen in the north of Queensland state.
Australia's 1st Rocket Crashes 14 Seconds Into Maiden Flight
Rocket science being difficult is more than a comedic cliché. It's as hard as President Kennedy said it was in the early 1960s.
After 54-year wait, Australia's first attempt at an orbital rocket crashes 14 seconds after liftoff
Eris-1, the first rocket fully built by an Australian company, crashed back to Earth 14 seconds after taking off from a spaceport in Queensland. It was the country's first orbital launch attempt since 1971.
First Australian Orbital Rocket Suffers Catastrophic
I had lost track of this launch, but Stephen Clark has the details: Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a long-shot attempt to reach orbit with the country’s first homegrown launch vehicle.
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1st made-in-Australia orbital rocket crashes after 14 seconds flight time: ‘Team safe, data in hand, ready for TestFlight 2’
Gilmour Space Technologies had earlier said it would consider the launch a success if the rocket left the ground.