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| Attribute | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Gilmour Space Technologies | CASC / SAST | Isar Aerospace |
| Country | 🇦🇺 Australia | 🇨🇳 China | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Status | In Development | Active | In Development |
| Vehicle class | Small | Medium | Small |
| Propellant | Hybrid (Sirius motors, stages 1–2) / liquid (Phoenix engine, stage 3) | UDMH / N₂O₄ (hypergolic all stages) | LOX / kerosene (~80% manufactured in-house) |
| Reusable | No | No | No |
| Stages | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| First flight | 2025 | 1992 | 2025 |
| Payload to LEO | 300 kgas of [1] | 3,500 kgas of [1]SSO capacity ~1,300 kg; standard LEO 3,500 kg ↑ Best | 1,000 kgas of [1] |
| Payload to GTO | — | — | — |
| Height | 25 mas of [1] | 41.06 mas of [1] ↑ Best | — |
| Liftoff mass | — | 232 tas of [1] ↑ Best | — |
| 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. | 98.7%as of [2]~77/78 successes; one known failure (CZ-2D Y7, Mar 1995 upper-stage anomaly) ↑ Best | 0/1 (first flight failed)as of [1]First flight from Andøya Spaceport (2025-03-30): liftoff succeeded but the rocket was terminated ~30 seconds in after a vent valve opened unexpectedly, causing loss of attitude control. Second flight ('Onward and Upward') repeatedly delayed through 2026 (weather, a safety-zone fishing vessel, a composite pressure vessel leak, then off-nominal fluid-system behavior as of 2026-06-15) — not yet flown as of this research. |
| Total flights | 1as of [1] | ~78as of [2] ↑ Best | 1as of [1] |
| Cost / kg LEO | — | — | — |
| 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. | China's most-used sun-synchronous and polar orbit workhorse for small-to-medium military and commercial Earth observation satellites. Launched from Jiuquan and Taiyuan. Uses storable hypergolic propellants for high launch-readiness but produces toxic exhaust. | Germany's first orbital-class launcher attempt; its first flight in March 2025 was Western Europe's first orbital launch attempt from the European mainland. A qualification second flight carrying CubeSats and ESA experiments has slipped repeatedly through 2026. |
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