The Department of Defense announced the contract as follows: Rocket Lab National Security LLC, Long Beach, California (FA8811-25-D-B007); and Stoke Space Technologies Inc., Kent, Washington ...

“Success to get off the pad, and lots of data already obtained. I am sure Isar Aerospace will learn a lot.” Aschbacher added: “Rocket launch is hard. Never give up, move forward with even ...

even though the rocket crashed into the sea off Norway 30 seconds after lift-off. Despite the short test flight, Isar Aerospace said it successfully completed the first test flight of its orbital ...

Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30). The company's Spectrum rocket lifted off from Europe's Andøya Spaceport ...

A German start-up’s orbital rocket spun out and crashed seconds after take-off Sunday, in a rare European test flight that the makers said “met its set goals.” The flight, from a spaceport ...

After delays including a last-minute postponement on Monday, the heavy-lift rocket blasted off into rainy skies from the Kourou space base in French Guiana. Around an hour after the launch ...

The first orbital rocket to launch from continental Europe ... Once in operation, Isar is billing Spectrum as a small to medium-lift launch vehicle, capable of delivering up to 2,200 pounds ...

"We had a clean lift-off, 30 seconds of flight and even got to validate our Flight Termination System," said Daniel Metzler, CEO and Co-founder of Isar Aerospace. The uncrewed Spectrum rocket was ...

Picture: Wingmen Media / AP) “We had a clean lift-off, 30 seconds of flight and even got to validate our Flight Termination System”, he continued. Isar had warned that the rocket was unlikely ...