{"id":1223617,"date":"2025-02-21T18:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1223617"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:38:36","slug":"german-startup-to-attempt-the-first-orbital-launch-from-western-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1223617","title":{"rendered":"German startup to attempt the first orbital launch from Western Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Isar Aerospace, a German startup founded seven years ago, is positioned to become the first in a new generation of European launch companies to reach orbit with a privately funded rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced Friday that the first stage of its Spectrum rocket recently completed a 30-second test-firing on a launch pad in the northernmost reaches of mainland Europe. The nine-engine booster ignited on a launch pad at And\u00f8ya Spaceport in Norway on February 14.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone follows a similar test-firing of the Spectrum rocket&#8217;s second stage last year. With these two accomplishments, Isar Aerospace says its launch vehicle is qualified for flight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/02\/german-startup-to-attempt-the-first-orbital-launch-from-western-europe\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/02\/german-startup-to-attempt-the-first-orbital-launch-from-western-europe\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isar Aerospace, a German startup founded seven years ago, is positioned to become the first in a new generation of European launch companies to reach orbit with a privately funded rocket. The company announced Friday that the first stage of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1223617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}