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| Attribute | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Gilmour Space Technologies | Galactic Energy | ExPace (CASIC subsidiary) |
| Country | 🇦🇺 Australia | 🇨🇳 China | 🇨🇳 China |
| Status | In Development | Active | Active |
| Vehicle class | Small | Small | Small |
| Propellant | Hybrid (Sirius motors, stages 1–2) / liquid (Phoenix engine, stage 3) | Solid (stages 1–3) + hydrazine liquid upper stage | Solid (3 stages) + liquid-fueled 4th stage |
| Reusable | No | No | No |
| Stages | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| First flight | 2025 | 2020 | 2017 |
| Payload to LEO | 300 kgas of [1] | 400 kgas of [1]300 kg to SSO. ↑ Best | 400 kgas of [1] ↑ Best |
| Payload to GTO | — | — | — |
| Height | 25 mas of [1] ↑ Best | 20 mas of [1] | 19.4 mas of [1] |
| Liftoff mass | — | 33 tas of [1] ↑ Best | 30 tas of [1]Transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) capable — road-mobile solid launcher. |
| Success rate | 0/1as of [1]Maiden flight 2025-07-30 crashed 14 seconds after launch (insufficient thrust), from Bowen Orbital Spaceport, Queensland — Australia's first domestic orbital launch attempt. Preceded by two scrubs (2025-05-15 electrical issue, 2025-05-16 fairing anomaly). A second test flight was slated for early 2026. Block 2 (1,000 kg payload) and Eris Heavy (4,000 kg payload) variants are planned. | 91.3% (21/23)as of [1] | ~85% (23 successes, 3 failures, 1 partial failure of 27)as of [1] ↑ Best |
| Total flights | 1as of [1] | 23as of [1] | 27as of [1] ↑ Best |
| Cost / kg LEO | — | ~$4.5M per launchas of [1]Total launch price, not a per-kg figure. ↓ Cheapest | — |
| Summary | Australia's first domestically developed orbital launch vehicle attempt, using a hybrid-propellant first and second stage; the maiden flight failed 14 seconds after liftoff in July 2025. | Galactic Energy's workhorse small-lift solid rocket — one of the most-flown Chinese commercial launchers — with a sea-launch variant (Ceres-1S, debuted Sep 2023) and a larger Ceres-2 in development. | CASIC's road-mobile, quick-response small solid launcher, operated commercially by ExPace since 2017 — one of the higher-cadence Chinese small-lift vehicles. |
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