{"id":24990,"date":"2025-03-30T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24990"},"modified":"2025-03-30T14:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T14:24:54","slug":"orbital-rocket-crashes-after-first-launch-from-continental-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24990","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Rocket Crashes After First Launch From Continental Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The rocket, developed by Isar Aerospace, lifted off from Norway\u2019s And\u00f8ya Space Center and crashed about 30 seconds later. The test flight was part of efforts to make Europe a center for private satellite launches.<\/p>\n

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The engine shuddered to life around half past noon local time on Sunday, and with a guttural roar, the 92-foot-tall Spectrum rocket lifted slowly away from its launch tower, marking the first liftoff of its kind on the European continent.<\/p>\n

The rocket, launched by Isar Aerospace from within the Arctic Circle at a spaceport on the icy Norwegian island of And\u00f8ya, was the first orbital flight outside of Russia to leave continental Europe. About 30 seconds after the rocket cleared the launchpad, it pitched to the side and plummeted back to earth.<\/p>\n

But Daniel Metzler, the chief executive of Isar Aerospace, was upbeat. He said in a statement that the test flight had \u201cmet all our expectations, achieving a great success,\u201d despite the crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a clean liftoff, 30 seconds of flight and even got to validate our Flight Termination System,\u201d Mr. Metzler said. The rocket fell directly into the sea, the launchpad was not damaged, and no one was harmed when the spacecraft crashed, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The And\u00f8ya Spaceport could not immediately be reached for comment. Earlier, it had posted on social media saying that \u201ccrisis management\u201d had been activated following the crash, and that it was collaborating with the emergency services and Isar Aerospace.<\/p>\n

The test flight was seven years in the making for Isar Aerospace, a German-based company founded in 2018 with a mission to make satellite launches more accessible from Europe. European companies have been pushing<\/a> ahead in space technology and research, exploring the potential of the space sector for defense, security and geopolitics.<\/p>\n

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The rocket, developed by Isar Aerospace, lifted off from Norway\u2019s And\u00f8ya Space Center and crashed about 30 seconds later. The test flight was part of efforts to make Europe a center for private satellite launches.The engine shuddered to life around half past noon local time on Sunday, and with a guttural roar, the 92-foot-tall Spectrum rocket lifted slowly away from its launch tower, marking the first liftoff of its kind on the European continent.The rocket, launched by Isar Aerospace from within the Arctic Circle at a spaceport on the icy Norwegian island of And\u00f8ya, was the first orbital flight outside of Russia to leave continental Europe. About 30 seconds after the rocket cleared the launchpad, it pitched to the side and plummeted back to earth.But Daniel Metzler, the chief executive of Isar Aerospace, was upbeat. He said in a statement that the test flight had \u201cmet all our expectations, achieving a great success,\u201d despite the crash.\u201cWe had a clean liftoff, 30 seconds of flight and even got to validate our Flight Termination System,\u201d Mr. Metzler said. The rocket fell directly into the sea, the launchpad was not damaged, and no one was harmed when the spacecraft crashed, he added.The And\u00f8ya Spaceport could not immediately be reached for comment. Earlier, it had posted on social media saying that \u201ccrisis management\u201d had been activated following the crash, and that it was collaborating with the emergency services and Isar Aerospace.The test flight was seven years in the making for Isar Aerospace, a German-based company founded in 2018 with a mission to make satellite launches more accessible from Europe. European companies have been pushing ahead in space technology and research, exploring the potential of the space sector for defense, security and geopolitics.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24992,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24993,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24990\/revisions\/24993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}