Launch interview: a ‘massive weight off the shoulders’

Launch interview: a ‘massive weight off the shoulders’

The flight was brief, lasting just 14 seconds or so, but Gilmour Space Technologies chief executive Adam Gilmour says the first test flight for its Eris orbital vehicle felt like “a massive weight off the shoulders. ”Speaking to InnovationAus.com just one day after the four engines of the Eris first stage boosters fired-up to lift the vehicle off the pad at the company’s Bowen Orbital Spaceport, Mr Gilmour said it was a relief for the crew to ge…