There are no customer satellites aboard the first Spectrum test flight. The rocket will climb into a polar orbit from Andøya ...

The catastrophic failure occurred just two months after the spacecraft ... Standing at 164-feet (50 meters), the new rocket replaced the Ariane 5, which made its final flight in July 2023 following ...

As Ariane 5 had ... follows the failure in mid-January. Back then, the upper stage exploded a few minutes after take-off. Since then, several changes have been made to the giant rocket.