{"id":778366,"date":"2024-03-06T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=778366"},"modified":"2024-03-06T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T11:37:00","slug":"australia-could-launch-its-first-private-orbital-rocket-within-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=778366","title":{"rendered":"Australia could launch its first private orbital rocket within weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The Eris Block 1 rocket<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Gilmour Space Technologies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Within weeks, the Australian government is expected to approve the country\u2019s first private orbital rocket launch, joining just a handful of space-faring nations that have done the same.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour Space Technologies, which has developed the new rocket, announced this week that it had gained operational approval from the Australian Space Agency (ASA) for Bowen Orbital Spaceport in North Queensland, Australia. The company has also set a goal of having Australian astronauts in orbit, launched from Australia, by the end of this decade.<\/p>\n<p>    \u2026\n                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2420760-australia-could-launch-its-first-private-orbital-rocket-within-weeks\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eris Block 1 rocket Gilmour Space Technologies Within weeks, the Australian government is expected to approve the country\u2019s first private orbital rocket launch, joining just a handful of space-faring&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/778367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}