{"id":305243,"date":"2025-07-31T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305243\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:24:11","slug":"first-australian-made-rocket-crashes-shortly-after-lift-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305243\/","title":{"rendered":"First Australian-made rocket crashes shortly after lift off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The first orbital rocket made and designed in Australia crashed 14 seconds after lift-off during its first test launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Videos show the Eris rocket, launched by Gilmour Space Technologies, lifting off the ground before losing momentum and crashing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Plumes of white smoke then start to rise at Bowen Orbital Spaceport in North Queensland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Gilmour Space Technologies described the test of the orbital rocket as a &#8220;giant leap&#8221; for the country&#8217;s space capability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In a written statement, the company confirmed no-one was injured and that a second launch should take place within six to eight months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first orbital rocket made and designed in Australia crashed 14 seconds after lift-off during its first test&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114945003630238403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}