The rocket crashed a moment after the start: The European rocket of German production crashed after starting from the Norwegian space base and on Sunday at 12:30. “Spectrum” is prototype of a small transport rocket from a private start-up from Bavaria. The effect of the work of Isar Aerospace after a few seconds from the start broke the flight, fell to the ground and exploded.
The rocket crashed, but the company announced a success: According to Astronet.pl, ultimately the flight was to include 6 stages: start, rising and changing the angle of the trajectory, then disconnecting the lower part, firing the engines by the second degree, disconnecting the fairing (aerodynamic cover) and finally reaching the orbit “, so the Sunday mission ended at the second stage. However, the start-up owners quickly commented on the event. As they stated, They collected important data for further work. – Our first test flight met all our expectations, ending great success. The start ran without any interference, the flight lasted 30 seconds, and in addition we were able to verify the operation of the flight interruption system – said Daniel Metzler, president (CEO) Isar Aerospace.
“The first of the test series”: – The goal was to start today and collect the maximum amount of data on the work of our construction. We worked at the moment seven years. “Spectrum” was created as its own undertaking designed from beginning to end only by us. This is the first of the test series – she said during the internet broadcast of Tina Schmitt with Isar Aerospace, as the Polish Press Agency quotes.
“Spectrum” twice as smaller than SpaceX: “Spectrum” is 28 meters long and is more than twice smaller than the SpaceX and Airbus rockets. Belongs to the so -called small transporters, which They can be used to provide loads below one ton to earthly satellites. German companies are currently implementing several such projects.
The start of the rocket was translated several times: The company from Munich has so far collected EUR 400 million. Among the main shareholders is the Volkswagen Porsche. The company translated the start of “Spectrum” several times due to the weather. Gathered The data will also be used to evaluateor the base mainly used by scientists in the north of Norway can be used in the future by European business.
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Sources: IAR, PAP, Astronet.pl