{"id":885766,"date":"2026-09-06T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885766\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:30:10","slug":"german-startup-sends-first-commercial-rocket-into-space-from-europe-aerospace-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885766\/","title":{"rendered":"German startup sends first commercial rocket into space from Europe | Aerospace industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A German startup has launched the first commercial rocket to reach orbit from continental <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/europe-news\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a>, a milestone for Europe\u2019s efforts to secure independent access to space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Isar Aerospace said on Sunday that it would rapidly \u2060expand satellite deployments after the \u2060first orbital launch of \u200bits uncrewed Spectrum rocket from Arctic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/norway\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norway<\/a>, marking a \u2060breakthrough for a region where several countries are seeking a foothold in the fast-growing market for satellite launches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cLaunch capability is right now the biggest bottleneck in the entire industry,\u201d Isar\u2019s co-founder and chief executive, Daniel Metzler, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, hailed Saturday\u2019s launch in a \u200bstatement, calling it \u201cthe beginning of a new era\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Merz visited Isar\u2019s \u200claunch site in March, underscoring Europe\u2019s \u200cefforts to establish greater autonomy as the global order once championed by the US is shifting under the administration of country\u2019s president, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The EU defence and space commissioner, Andrius Kubilius, wrote on the social media platform X: \u201cEurope\u2019s independent access to space just got a major boost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Blasting off from And\u00f8ya Spaceport, Spectrum carried five small satellites along with an in-flight technology experiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">It was Isar\u2019s second launch, 18 months after the company\u2019s first rocket plunged into the sea and exploded in a fiery spectacle shortly after takeoff from the same site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Isar has said it already has five more rockets in production and is now focused on scaling up operations to meet rising demand, with a long-term goal of conducting about 40 launches a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The German company \u200bis developing a second launch site in Nova Scotia in eastern Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Global players \u2060in the satellite launch market include Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, which launches from the US, and the French firm ArianeGroup, \u200ba joint venture between Airbus and Safran \u200bthat uses a spaceport in French Guiana, South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A German startup has launched the first commercial rocket to reach orbit from continental Europe, a milestone for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-885766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}