Gilmour Space, a Gold Coast rocket company, just received a massive $61M in funding. Today we’ll look at the evolving global launch industry, how Gilmour Space fits in, and what they’ll be doing with the funding. We've also got a bunch of exciting Aussie space news to round up.

Global launch industry evolution:

• Launch service providers
• Countries who have launched to orbit
• SpaceX rideshare program
• List of small satellite launchers
• Space launch market competition, including table of estimated payload costs

Gilmour Space Technologies:

• Company website
• Three stage Eris rocket
• Proposed Abbot Point launch site
• Engine test videos:
  • 30 second, 90 kN main engine test, February 2021
  • 110 second upper stage engine test, July 2020
• Funding history
• Defence Industrial Capability Plan 2018 covers the rationale for more Australian defence sovereign capabilities

Australian space industry news:

• 28 June - Boeing adds Leidos Australia, Viasat and Idigenous Defence and Infrastructure Consortium (IDIC) to its bid for $3B Australian defence satellite contract, JP9102.
• 30 June - Gilmour Space raised $61M, the largest investment ever in an Australian space company.
• 1 July - SpaceX’s Transporter-2 mission launched, including Centauri 4 satellite for Fleet.
• 1 July - Spiral Blue launched their first hardware aboard Virgin Orbit’s “Tubular Bells, Part One” flight.
• 1 July - Australian Space Agency to pursue a Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA) between the US and Australia, and will postpone cost recovery on launch activities until July 2022.
• 6 July - Space companies land four grants worth $13.8M under the Federal government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative.

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