Australian company Gilmour Space is poised to launch Australia's first ever orbital rocket designed and manufactured in the land down under.

The launch of the first ever Australian-built rocket hoping to reach orbit has been delayed after an issue was discovered just hours before its scheduled take-off.

NASA selected Rocket Lab to launch a small NASA astrophysics spacecraft that will study galaxies at ultraviolet wavelengths.

If successful, it would be the first Australian-made rocket to make an orbital launch from Australian soil. The 23m vehicle is designed to launch small satellites into low-Earth o

Gilmour Space, a venture-backed startup based in Australia, is about to launch a small rocket from its privately owned spaceport on a remote stretch of the country's northeastern coastline.

Gilmour Space Technologies said a ground system glitch forced it to postpone the first test launch of its three-stage Eris rocket by a day until Friday

SpaceX is getting closer to launching Starship, the world's largest rocket, once again on a critical flight test later in May.

Gilmour Space Technologies is performing final system checks before launching its homegrown Eris rocket. The vehicle is poised to become the first orbital launch from Australian soil by a sovereign-built vehicle when it makes its debut this week.