Well… the challenges are manifold. We all know that.
They will try again. Here’s CBS on it all:
…A test rocket aimed at building the ability to launch satellites from Europe exploded about 40 seconds after takeoff from a Norwegian spaceport on Sunday.
The unmanned Spectrum rocket, an orbital rocket developed by German start-up Isar Aerospace, started smoking from its sides and then crashed back to Earth with a powerful explosion after launching from Norway’s Andoya Spaceport in the Arctic.
Daniel Metzler, Isar’s chief executive and co-founder, said in a news release “We had a clean liftoff, 30 seconds of flight and even got to validate our Flight Termination System. . . .”
Spectrum’s blast-off was the first of an orbital launch vehicle from the European continent, excluding Russia, and Europe’s first financed almost exclusively by the private sector….
Now you know. Kinda’ like… “Death of a Unicorn” yesterday. Hah — see below — updated, at 38 minutes in:
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