{"id":153446,"date":"2022-12-22T19:25:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T01:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/ultra-light-electric-motor-to-feed-australias-first-home-grown-rocket"},"modified":"2022-12-22T19:25:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T01:25:32","slug":"ultra-light-electric-motor-to-feed-australias-first-home-grown-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/ultra-light-electric-motor-to-feed-australias-first-home-grown-rocket","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-light electric motor to feed Australia\u2019s first home-grown rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5vyhef00ebY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Equipmake says it\u2019s got the lightest and most power-dense electric motor on the market, and if there\u2019s one place where weight is critical, it\u2019s on a launch pad. The company has developed an ultra-lightweight motor for Australia\u2019s first rocket launch.<\/p>\n<p>Queensland-based Gilmour Space Technologies is on the home stretch making preparations for the launch of its three-stage Eris orbital launch vehicle next April. It\u2019ll be the first orbital launch attempt of an Australian designed and built rocket, and the company hopes it\u2019ll represent the beginning of a new space launch industry Down Under.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than acting as a supplier to other rocket companies overseas, Gilmour has built its own machine from the ground up. Standing 25 m (82 ft) high, it has a first-stage diameter of 2 m (6.6 ft), and a second-stage diameter of 1.5 m (4.9 ft), and it\u2019s designed to take a payload mass up to 305 kg (672 lb) up as high as 500 km (311 miles) for delivery to sun-synchronous or equatorial orbits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equipmake says it\u2019s got the lightest and most power-dense electric motor on the market, and if there\u2019s one place where weight is critical, it\u2019s on a launch pad. The company has developed an ultra-lightweight motor for Australia\u2019s first rocket launch. Queensland-based Gilmour Space Technologies is on the home stretch making preparations for the launch of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}