The Doming Sunday offspring followed a week of adverse climatic conditions, which delayed the test on Mondays and Saturdays.
The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe: 30 seconds of flight before it is blocked.
Europe has taken a significant step in its aerospace ambitions with the first test of the spectrum rocket test.
The European Aerospace Private Company IAR Aerospace successfully completed the first rehearsal flight of its “Spectrum” rocket, although it was living on the ground a few seconds after Sunday launch.
Isar Aerospace, a German -based German company, launched the rocket from the Norwegian spatial base on the island of Andya, in northern Norway. The rocket took off from the platform at 12:30 pm on Sunday and flew for about 30 seconds before turning and falling, causing a strong explosion.
The spectrum, which is 28 meters long, is a two -phase rocket specifically designed to place small and medium satellites.
This is the first attempt to launch a satellite rocket in continental Europe.
“Our first trial flight has lived up to all our expectations and it was a great success,” said Daniel Metzler, CEO and co -founder of Isar, in a press release. “We had a clean flight, 30 seconds, and we could also validate our flight completion system.”
Domingo’s offspring followed a week of adverse climatic conditions, which delayed the test on Mondays and Saturdays.
The company had widely ruled out the possibility that the rocket reaches the orbit on its first complete flight, stating that it would consider a 30 second flight a success.
The purpose of Iar Aerospace is to collect as many data and experience as possible during the first integrated test of all systems in its internally developed launch vehicle.
Iar Aerospace is separated from the European Space Agency (ESA), which is funded by its 23 Member States.
ESA has been launching rockets and satellites in orbit for years, but mainly of the French Guiana and Cabo Canaveral, Florida; Therefore, this was the first attempt to launch a satellite rocket in continental Europe.
