Australia's first private rocket launch, set to take place at an Aboriginal community on South Australia's far west coast, has failed, with the propellent failing to ignite.
A crowd had gathered for the rocket launch at KoonibbaThe businesses involved say they can learn from the launch failure
A crowd of more than 200 at the Koonibba Aboriginal community was counting down until lift-off when Southern Launch chief executive Lloyd Damp announced there had been a misfire."This is one of the things we've been training for and practising for the last few days."We'll unpack the rocket, work out what went wrong, and we might be back as early as tomorrow to try again.Koonibba Aboriginal School students who came to watch said they were disappointed.
"I don't think it's a real rocket launch activity unless we have at least one failure to launch," Mr Spencer said.A crowd turned up to watch the rocket launch but left disappointed. "We're taking some of the information that we were going to learn this week to incorporate into some of our software," he said."If we're fortunate enough, we'll be able to push that through in 18 months.Royal Australian Air Force Group Captain Tobyn Bearman said the air force was interested in supporting DEWC and Southern Launch in experimenting with the "next step" of sensors that were built into the rocket's payload.
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