New Year, New Record for Australia's Gilmour Space

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New Year, New Record for Australia's Gilmour Space

Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jan 20, 2021 Australia's leading rocket company, Gilmour Space Technologies, has ushered in the New Year with a successful hotfire of the world's largest single-port hybrid rocket engine. [See video] "We achieved a record 91 kilonewtons (or 9 tonnes-force) of thrust in this initial verification test of our main engine," said Adam Gilmour, CEO and co-founder of Gilmour Space, a Queensland-based company