At 22:12 CEST, Isar Aerospace said its Spectrum rocket made orbit on its second flight from And\u00f8ya Spaceport, deployed its payloads, and became the first privately developed launcher to do that from continental Europe.<\/p>\n\n
The 28-meter<\/strong> two-stage vehicle lifted off from And\u00f8ya Spaceport at 22:12 CEST on \u201cOnward and Upward.\u201d About four minutes later, according to Isar Aerospace, it had reached orbit. The flight also marked a rebound from last March\u2019s first attempt, which crashed after about 30 seconds, followed by later weather, technical, and range delays.<\/p>\n\n Spectrum is built to carry up to 1,000 kg<\/strong> to low Earth orbit for dedicated small-payload missions and precise placement, not Falcon 9-style heavy lift. Isar Aerospace said this flight carried educational and startup satellites selected through the German Space Agency\u2019s Microlauncher Competition as part of a European Space Agency (ESA) program. The timing, just days before French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s Paris space summit, also points to Europe\u2019s push to rely less on non-European providers, with Rocket Factory Augsburg, PLD Space, And\u00f8ya Spaceport, and SaxaVord all part of that effort.<\/p>\n\n If you follow Europe\u2019s launch market<\/a>, keep an eye on Isar Aerospace. Founded in 2018, the company says it has raised \u20ac270 million<\/strong>, has an ESA deal worth about \u20ac200 million, gets 60% of its orders from defense, plans to produce 40 rockets a year near Munich, and has its manifest booked through 2028.<\/p>\n\n You can find mission details through Isar Aerospace\u2019s official channels.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 22:12 CEST, Isar Aerospace said its Spectrum rocket made orbit on its second flight from And\u00f8ya Spaceport, deployed its payloads, and became the first privately developed launcher to do that from continental Europe. The 28-meter two-stage vehicle lifted off from And\u00f8ya Spaceport at 22:12 CEST on \u201cOnward and Upward.\u201d About four minutes later, according … Continue reading “Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on second flight: a first for continental Europe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":377036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-377037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377038,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377037\/revisions\/377038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377037"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=377037"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=377037"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=377037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}