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German startup to attempt the first orbital launch from Western Europe | “We are almost ready for the test flight. All we need is the license."
“We are almost ready for the test flight. All we need is the license.”…
Isar Aerospace, a German startup founded seven years ago, is positioned to become the first in a new generation of European launch companies to reach orbit with a privately funded rocket. Another Bavarian company, Rocket Factory Augsburg, destroyed its first booster during a test-firing on its launch pad in Scotland last year, ceding the frontrunner mantle to Isar. Delays in developing the Ariane 6 rocket and several failures of Europe's smaller Vega launcher forced European satellite operators to look abroad, primarily to SpaceX, to launch their payloads.
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