Sydney, May 16, 2025 (AFP) - Nose cone glitch wipes Australian rocket launch

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2025-05-16

An Australian aerospace firm said Friday it has scrubbed a historic attempt to send a locally developed rocket into orbit, citing a glitch in the nose cone protecting its payload -- a jar of Vegemite. An electrical fault erroneously deployed the opening mechanism of the carbon-fibre nose cone during pre-flight testing, Gilmour Space Technologies said. The nose cone is designed to shield the payload during the rocket's ascent through the Earth's a......

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