Australia’s 1st orbital rocket, Gilmour Space’s Eris, fails on historic debut launch

I think it’s unfair to call it a failure, it clearly achieved some goals – although admittedly 14 seconds of flight time is probably a bit shorter than they were hoping for; however for comparison SpaceX’s first ever flight was 41 seconds and look at them now.

You can watch the video of the launch on YouTube (the camera quality isn’t amazing, but this was one bloke in his spare time 13km away, so very thankful for this). Time stamped link here: https://youtu.be/3-4xv0UxIhY?t=5552

I hope they continue on this path, would love to see an Aussie rocket reach orbit!

A bit disappointing. I don’t expect the 1st attempt of any rocket not to be a failure, but I don’t think there’s many things that could’ve caused this that shouldn’t have been picked up in the static fire test.

Yes this is a failure. SpaceX has made admitting to failure toxic or whatever because you can learn from everything. It’s incredibly hard to learn from failure if you’re afraid to admit it failed.