German space rocket explodes seconds after takeoff from Norway

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Updated Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 8:36 AM

STORY: :: A German trial rocket launched from Norway crashes and explodes seconds aft takeoff

:: Arctic Andoeva Spaceport, Norway

:: March 30, 2025

:: ISAR Aerospace/NASASpaceflight.com

The uncrewed Spectrum rocket was billed arsenic the archetypal effort astatine an orbital formation to originate from Europe, wherever respective nations, including Sweden and Britain, person said they privation a stock of a increasing marketplace for commercialized abstraction missions.

Global players successful the outer motorboat marketplace see Elon Musk's SpaceX, which launches from the United States, and French ArianeGroup, a associated task betwixt Airbus and Safran that uses a spaceport successful South America's French Guiana.

SpaceX besides operates the Starlink outer service, a communications web spanning overmuch of the globe.

Germany's BDLI aerospace industries relation said Isar's archetypal formation would pb to further progress, with Managing Director Marie-Christine von Hahn saying successful a statement, "Europe urgently needs to guarantee its sovereignty successful space. Elon Musk's Starlink is not without alternatives - nor should it be."