Head of Launch Operations · Founder, Gilmour Space
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Rocket firm Gilmour Space raised a $217 million Series E co-led by the National Reconstruction Fund and Hostplus, reaching a billion-dollar valuation; earlier Series B, C and D raises are recapped.
Gilmour Space has final approval to launch its Eris rocket Thursday from Queensland, carrying Vegemite and a camera on the maiden flight of Australia's first home-grown orbital rocket.
Gilmour Space Technologies has received a fifteen-million-dollar government contract to build and launch a surveillance satellite for Defence, with the company also recalling a larger consortium grant awarded earlier in the year.