Equatorial Launch Australia, known as ELA, was an Australian company founded by Scott Wallis in 2016 that owned and operated the Arnhem Space Centre, a commercially owned, multi-user equatorial launch site on the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory. The site supported sub-orbital and small orbital launches and, on 27 June 2022, hosted NASA first sounding rocket launch from a commercial spaceport outside the United States. After lease negotiations with the Northern Territory government failed, the company announced in December 2024 that it would cease operations at Arnhem and relocate to Queensland, and it entered liquidation in March 2026, owing the Northern Territory government about five million dollars.
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HeadSource calls him the current CEO while the company is in liquidation; the current status is not verified Founded Year HeadquartersAdelaide, South Australia 2 In the Other Atlases
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1. Lot Fourteen, welcomes Equatorial Launch Australia
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Founded in 2015
In Group: Australian Space Agencies and Companies, Page text: company base
South Australia will become ELA’s corporate headquarters and a hub for launch preparation and safety assessment activities which will support the attraction of space-related engineering, project management and safety analysis talent to the state.
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which has its head office in Adelaide, South Australia
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current CEO Michael Jones
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