The nine-engine first stage for Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket lights up on the launch pad on February 14. Credit: Isar Aerospace
Isar builds almost all of its rockets in-house, including Spectrum’s Aquila engines.
“The flight will be the first integrated test of tens of thousands of components,” said Josef Fleischmann, Isar’s co-founder and chief technical officer. “Regardless of how far we get, this first test flight will hopefully generate an enormous amount of data and experience which we can apply to future missions.”
Isar is the first European startup to reach this point in development. “Reaching this milestone is a huge success in
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