Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30).

Isar Aerospace, the company behind the rocket, is still heralding the launch as a success due to the data it provided ...

A camera placed near the launchpad delivers and amazing view of the first liftoff of Europe's Ariane 6 rocket. Credit: ESA ...

The Germany company's first Spectrum rocket lifted off Sunday morning (March 30) from Andøya Spaceport in northern Norway on ...

There are no customer satellites aboard the first Spectrum test flight. The rocket will climb into a polar orbit from Andøya ...

It was the first attempt to launch a rocket from the European mainland and an effort to jump start the continent's move to join the burgeoning space race. Sweden and Britain have said they intend ...

A first European orbital launch attempt was made in 2023 by billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit. It attempted to use a Boeing 747 to launch a rocket into orbit from southwest ...

A German startup named Isar Aerospace will try to launch its first rocket Saturday, aiming to become the first in a wave of ...

Now, the inaugural test flight for a space startup ended in disaster when the first orbital rocket launch on mainland Europe exploded seconds after takeoff. A test launch from space startup Isar ...

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 ...

A German-built test rocket, Spectrum, exploded 40 seconds after launching from Norway's Andoya Spaceport in a historic attempt to establish satellite launches from Europe. Despite the failure, ...

The 28-metre (92-foot) tall, two-metre diameter rocket has a one-tonne carrying capacity, but was unloaded for the test flight. Spectrum's blast-off was the first of an orbital launch vehicle from the ...