\tEnabling & Support<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t20\/01\/2026
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t8 likes<\/p>\n
\t\tIn brief<\/p>\n
Isar Aerospace\u2019s Spectrum launcher is getting ready for liftoff from And\u00f8ya Spaceport in Norway.<\/p>\n
This flight is designated a qualification flight, after last year\u2019s first test flight.<\/p>\n
The Spectrum rocket will host six payloads<\/p>\n
Isar Aerospace is backed by the European Space Agency (ESA) \u2018Boost!\u2019 programme<\/p>\n
\tIn-depth<\/p>\n
Isar Aerospace will countdown to the second launch of its Spectrum rocket, from And\u00f8ya Spaceport in northern Norway.<\/p>\n
Watch the launch live through Isar Aerospace<\/a>, broadcast will start about one hour<\/a> before liftoff that is no earlier than 20:00 GMT\/21:00 CET on 21 January.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tFirst Spectrum liftoff, March 2025<\/a><\/p>\n Isar Aerospace\u2019s two-stage launch vehicle Spectrum is 28 m tall, 2 m in diameter and, with its ten engines, it is targeting to launch payloads of up to 1000 kg to low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n This launch comes just ten months after the rocket\u2019s first test flight, that flew for 30 seconds, clearing the launch pad and proved Spectrum can achieve one of the hardest parts of space transportation: liftoff.<\/p>\n First passengers<\/p>\n Unlike the test flight in 2025, for this second Spectrum launch Isar Aerospace has selected six passengers, five commercial and educational cubesats and an experiment that aims to prove new technologies in orbit around Earth and provide educational experiences for students in Europe.<\/p>\n “With the second Spectrum launcher on the launchpad in Norway, we are witnessing a clear signal of Europe\u2019s burgeoning commercial space transportation services,\u201d says ESA\u2019s Director General Josef Aschbacher, \u201cIsar Aerospace is poised to rise to a great challenge, one that will be instrumental in advancing a resilient and autonomous Europe in space.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tFirst liftoff for Spectrum from And\u00f8ya Spaceport, March 2025<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThese are exciting times for European space transportation, as we witness new actors developing and launching new vehicles,\u201d said Toni Tolker-Nielsen, ESA\u2019s Director of Space Transportation, \u201cregardless of the outcome of this second flight, it will be another step to make European launch services market more diverse and resilient. Isar Aerospace will have advanced its capabilities and gained valuable experience.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis qualification flight is a deliberate step toward delivering sovereign access to space for Europe and allied nations. Just ten months after proving that launch vehicles can be designed, built, and launched from continental European soil, we\u2019re ready to fly again. Europe\u2019s immediate need for space access is clear. Rapid iteration is essential to developing space capabilities precisely when they are required,\u201d said Daniel Metzler, CEO and Co\u2011founder of Isar Aerospace.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \tChallenge accepted<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoost! and Isar Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n Initially supported by ESA\u2019s Business Incubation Centre, Isar Aerospace has received several rounds of co-funding as part of ESA\u2019s Boost! programme<\/a>\u00a0that helps commercial initiatives offering space transportation services. ESA\u2019s Boost! Programme is also supporting this second Spectrum flight and scaling-up of production facilities.<\/p>\n In 2025 Isar Aerospace was selected alongside four other European space transportation companies for the European Launcher Challenge. As a first important milestone, the European Launcher Challenge requires launch service providers to successfully achieve an orbital launch no later than 2027. If successful, this upcoming flight would demonstrate the ability of the Spectrum launch system to reach orbit for Isar Aerospace in the context of the European Launcher Challenge<\/a> programme.<\/p>\n Like<\/p>\n Thank you for liking<\/p>\n You have already liked this page, you can only like it once!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enabling & Support 20\/01\/2026 380 views 8 likes In brief Isar Aerospace\u2019s Spectrum launcher is getting ready for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-248380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}