adam gilmour
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adam gilmour
@GilmourAdam
launch vehicle CEO, gymnast, Star Wars fan
Gold Coast, Queensland Katılım Nisan 2014
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The Albanese Government is providing a further $10m to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund to help keep lights on, homes heated and essential services running as Russia continues systematic strikes on civilian areas and energy infrastructure, during one of Ukraine's harshest winters.
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Dad bidding farewell to his son and wife during the Russia-Ukraine war. He's staying behind, possibly to fight, while they evacuate by train. He runs in the snow, trying to make the boy laugh, but the child senses the sadness in his mother's eyes 💔😭
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I’m Dr Ahmed, a Muslim consultant psychiatrist. For more than 10 years, I’ve worked over Xmas so colleagues who celebrate can be with their loved ones. I’m on call again this year in emergency psychiatry. Thanks to all frontline staff working over the festive period. Merry Xmas.
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Thanks to the new and improved twitter, my feed is full of total extremist assholes from both sides.
Almost no one sensible. Just a combination of bots and cynical political spin-masters.
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“Russia remains fully committed to achieving peace in Ukraine.” U.S. Special Envoy Witkoff, 22 December 2025.
Ukraine tonight sees Putin’s commitment to achieving peace.
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@Dr_M_Davis Buzz aldrin wrote a good book on solar sails powered by lasers that slingshot around the sun. There are other technologies coming soon too. But we will need normal rocket engine technology to get them into space for now
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Even if we could get a spacecraft up to 20% the speed of light, it would only take us 21 years to get to Proxima Centauri. For an uncrewed probe, that would be acceptable. Then a little over 4 years for the information from that probe to be received by us on Earth. Incorporating AI to allow it to operate autonomously, it would be an opportunity to get a close-up view of a potentially habitable planet - Proxima B. The challenge is how do we accelerate a spacecraft up to 0.20 c?
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@elonmusk is broadly correct - its not about the Sun leaving the main sequence and turning into a Red Giant in about 5 billion years time. Its about increases in solar luminosity and radiation changing Earth's environment in about a billion years time that makes this planet then uninhabitable - try no oceans!
But, seriously, if we are not an interstellar civilisation - let alone multiplanetary - in about a billion years - then we are doing something seriously wrong.
DogeDesigner@cb_doge
ELON MUSK: "Earth only has about 10% more life in it before it gets so hot that life is impossible. So eventually all life on earth will be destroyed by the sun, so we do at some point need to be a multi planet civilization."
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@Dr_M_Davis Indeed , thanks PM and DPM for the support of Ukraine .
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Very good move by the Australian government.
#SlavaUkraini
Vasyl Myroshnychenko@AmbVasyl
The Australian Government has announced a AUD 95 million (USD 63 million) military assistance package for Ukraine. This includes a AUD 50 million contribution to PURL, AUD 2 million for the Drone Coalition, and AUD 43 million in military equipment, including tactical air-defence radars, munitions, and combat engineering assets. On behalf of the President of Ukraine @ZelenskyyUa and the Ukrainian people, I extend our heartfelt gratitude to Prime Minister @AlboMP , Deputy Prime Minister @RichardMarlesMP , Foreign Minister @SenatorWong , and Defence Industry Minister @PatConroy1 , as well as to the people of Australia, for standing firmly with Ukraine. This is a true demonstration of Aussie mateship. We will never forget your support. 🇺🇦🇦🇺💪
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🚀 My thanks to @GilmourSpace for the opportunity to visit their Brisbane ‘office’ today. Great to see one of our 🇦🇺 Industry and listen to their future ambitions 🛰️
Their Eris rocket launched for 14 sec in July with a 23 sec burn time on their hybrid rocket engine! BZ Adam 🚀
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Space Command - spending National Science Week helping to decode the universe by assuring Australia’s access to space. #youradf #scienceweek
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@GilmourAdam @AussieSpaceGirl Big steps Adam! Nice to see a lot of interest in our video we've just published on the launch. Best of luck with Eris 2! 🇦🇺
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Back in 2018, Adam told me that his team would be the first Aussie company to launch an orbital rocket. And he did it. Congrats mate!! So stoked for you and your entire team.
Gilmour Space@GilmourSpace
TestFlight1 — Liftoff 🚀 Today, Eris became the first #AustralianMade orbital rocket to launch from Australian soil — ~14s of flight, 23s engine burn. Big step for 🇦🇺 launch capability. Team safe, data in hand, eyes on TestFlight 2. (More pics and vids to come from the media.)
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Onward to the next launch. Proud to see this Aussie space launch company working its way to orbit. As Theodore Roosevelt noted, “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Go @GilmourSpace!
Gilmour Space@GilmourSpace
Hey guys, don’t worry! Our payload is safe.
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@AussieSpaceGirl Thanks I’ll let you know and I’m happy to buy you one as well
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@GilmourAdam Can’t wait to see it! If you find yourself in Colorado Springs in the next 18 months, I’d love to buy you a beer.
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Ok I did some measurements on the Gilmour space launch, there's two engine failures, the first happens within two seconds of liftoff.
It had accelerated to about 20km/h, it then maintains constant speed on 3 engines until a second engine fails about 5 seconds later. Then it falls back.
In both cases there's fire still coming out the nozzle, but there's not enough chamber pressure to develop thrust.
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Thanks Ross
Ross Greenwood@Ross_Greenwood
It's not often that business people genuinely claim victory from apparent defeat. But the attitude of Adam Gilmour, CEO of @GilmourSpace is inspiring. His commentary and attitude as Eris launches, then fails, is fantastic. Watch it here: lnkd.in/g_HUz8nJ @SkyNewsAust
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@spacegovuk @GilmourSpace @SaxaVord_Space Thanks a lot our dear friends in the UK. Good luck to you as well.
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Congratulations to all involved in this important step for @GilmourSpace and Australia! 🇦🇺
With @SaxaVord_Space preparing for the UK’s first vertical launches later this year, we hope to soon be joining Australia in celebrating first launch milestones. 🚀🇬🇧
Gilmour Space@GilmourSpace
TestFlight1 — Liftoff 🚀 Today, Eris became the first #AustralianMade orbital rocket to launch from Australian soil — ~14s of flight, 23s engine burn. Big step for 🇦🇺 launch capability. Team safe, data in hand, eyes on TestFlight 2. (More pics and vids to come from the media.)
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Congratulations @GilmourSpace on the first liftoff!
Gilmour Space@GilmourSpace
TestFlight1 — Liftoff 🚀 Today, Eris became the first #AustralianMade orbital rocket to launch from Australian soil — ~14s of flight, 23s engine burn. Big step for 🇦🇺 launch capability. Team safe, data in hand, eyes on TestFlight 2. (More pics and vids to come from the media.)
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Happy to have got off the pad
Gilmour Space@GilmourSpace
Liftoff completed, launch tower cleared, stage 1 tested. Awesome result for a first test launch.
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