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LAUNCH and FAILURE of Gilmour Space Eris flight 1 from Bowen Spaceport, Australia at about 2235 UTC Jul 29. Rocket ascended about 50 metres while maintaining vertical attitude but translating sideways, and impacted near pad after a 20 second flight. Image from Aussienaut youtube coverage.

Aussienaut livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4xv0UxIhY

NSF article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/07/eris-testflight1/

After liftoff at 22:35 UTC on July 29, the vehicle slowly cleared the launch tower and drifted to the side before coming back down to Earth.

Tweet from Gilmour Space: https://x.com/GilmourSpace/status/1950350700728504527

TestFlight1 — Liftoff 🚀

Today, Eris became the first #AustralianMade orbital rocket to launch from Australian soil — ~14s of flight, 23s engine burn.

Big step for 🇦🇺 launch capability. Team safe, data in hand, eyes on TestFlight 2.

(More pics and vids to come from the media.)

https://x.com/GilmourSpace/status/1950395515721711703

Liftoff completed, launch tower cleared, stage 1 tested. Awesome result for a first test launch.