This launcher is about to displace the V-2 as Germany’s largest rocket
There are no customer satellites aboard the first Spectrum test flight. The rocket will climb into a polar orbit from Andøya Spaceport in northern Norway, but Isar hasn't published a launch timeline or the exact parameters of the target orbit.
Walter Dornberger (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-009-33 / CC-BY-SA 3.0) This is the world in which V-2, written by the head of the German rocket development program Walter Dornberger, takes place.
Are you aware that the first rocket that made it to space was actually built for war? The German V-2 A4 rocket, launched off the Baltic coast, achieved an altitude of almost 190 km – high ...
At White Sands, N.Mex., Army scientists succeeded for the first time last week in maneuvering (up & down, right & left) a German V-2 rocket in flight. It was the most important advance in guided ...
But the V-2 wasn’t the only rocket-powered ... and to this day, no orbital rocket has ever launched from German soil.
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