Australia Plans to Launch Locally-Made Hybrid Rockets in 2022

Engadget recently reported Australia's plan to create its path toward spaceflight. It seeks to make history by launching locally-made hybrid rockets this year.

The University of Queensland and Gilmour Space are choosing to support local with their domestically-produced "next-gen" hybrid rockets that will make their way into low Earth orbit in 2022.

What do locally-made hybrid rockets mean? These refer to rockets and components manufactured and produced in Australia, and these spacecraft will not depend on other countries' engines.

The team spearheading the space campaign, mostly coming from within the university, said they are centering their energy on the spacecraft' fuel system, which Dr. Ingo Jahn referred to as "one of the most complex engineering challenges" for rockets.

Israeli, Indian space flights?

Australian space teams are not the first ones to advocate for a more advanced industry in space. Countries such as Russia, China, and the United States are still dominating nations in spaceflight, including the European Space Agency.

However, today, emerging countries are becoming more interested in it, including Australia, India, and Israel. They are starting to build their own space exploration projects, the report added. It is expected for these newcomers to change the setting and re-balance the setup, making spaceflight a common activity around the globe.

SpaceX news

With the launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 on Saturday, June 13, it is now adding 58 Starlink satellites and three Planet SkySats right toward the orbit, and these were successful and "amazing" as what netizens would say.

At around sunrise, 5:21 a.m., Falcon 9 rocket was launched to space, right from Space Launch Complex 40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida State, Space.comreported. The rocket ascended to the sky, at predawn, with the exhaust plume being illuminated by the sunlight, giving onlookers and astronomers a very impressive view. However, some observers reported seeing the reentry maneuver of Falcon 9 touching down on SpaceX's drone ship. Of course, I Still Love You around 600 kilometers or 350 miles away in the Atlantic Ocean. The spectacle from the launch taken from the lenses of photographers and onlookers trended worldwide on social media. The Falcon 9 launch was the ninth mission from SpaceX, launching dozens of Starlink internet satellites as the company constructs a mega-constellation in orbit. These satellites will provide high-speed Internet on Earth, particularly in a remote area.

These tens of thousands of orbiting routers will provide broadband Internet, with the SkySats helping PlanetLabs develop new imagery of the Earth's surface, providing information to academicians and pupils alike.

The launch of Falcon 9 was the second of the three commercial launches last Saturday, the report added.

Aside from the Falcon 9 launch, a Rocker Lab Electron booster also allowed five small satellites to take off right into orbit from a pad on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula. Around 11 hours afterward, the Japanese start-up Interstellar Technologies attempted to launch its very own Momo-F5 sounding rocket from Hokkaido's Taiki Town. However, this launch failed to get onto suborbital space, the report pointed out.