Europe Finally Gets Its Own SpaceX Challenger As Isar Reaches Orbit
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A historical page in European space exploration was written on Saturday, September 5, as for the first time a rocket was launched and reached orbit from European soil. The German space company Isar Aerospace carried out the successful launch Spectrum rocket from Andøya Spaceport in northern Norway, as part of the mission “Onward and Upward”. The rocket carried into low Earth orbit six commercial and educational CubeSat microsatellites, as well a…
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Europe Finally Gets Its Own SpaceX Challenger As Isar Reaches Orbit At 10:12pm local time on Saturday, a 92-foot rocket built by Munich startup Isar Aerospace lifted off from a windswept island above the Arctic Circle and reached orbit, where it deployed five small satellites into a roughly 500-km orbit on what was only its second flight, making it the first commercial European company to deliver payloads to orbit and the first successful comme…
Isar Aerospace successfully launched Spectrum, the first European commercial rocket to reach low Earth orbit.
German start-up Isar Aerospace successfully placed its Spectrum rocket in orbit from Norway, a first for a European private launcher.
A German rocket company made history by launching a rocket into orbit from European soil for the first time. More...
The Bavarian company Isar Aerospace was able to put its Spectrum rocket into orbit 18 months after the first attempt. This is the first such launch from continental Europe. The Spectrum space rocket, built by the German company Isar Aerospace, was launched into space from Norway's Anna Cosmodrome.
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