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🇩🇪🇳🇴 Isar Aerospace "Going Full Spectrum" (Demo Flight) launch thread (self.spaceflight)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by threelonmusketeers to c/spaceflight
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New rocket, new orbital launch pad, new launch provider!

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-03-30 10:30 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-03-30, 12:30 (CEDT) | | Mission | Demo flight | | Launch site | Orbital Launch Pad, Andøya Space Center, Nordland, Norway 🇳🇴 | | Launch vehicle | Spectrum | | Launch Provider | Isar Aerospace 🇩🇪 | | Target Orbit | LEO |

Livestreams

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Isar Aerospace | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKLQxe2MvpQ | | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bykfQ3J4NNc |

Stats

  • 1st flight of Spectrum.
  • 1st orbital launch attempt from Andøya.
  • 1st orbital launch attempt by Isar Aerospace.

Mission Details

Demo flight of the Spectrum rocket towards LEO, without any payload.

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[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On-time liftoff of Spectrum at 10:30 UTC. Around T+18 seconds, the vehicle did a somersault, and the engines went out shortly after.

The launch pad is intact, though only narrowly.

The flight termination system was apparently validated seconds, ~~though I can't see any signs of this in the above drone footage~~. Edit: Smallsat launcher FTS often don't use explosive, but just shut off the engines.

Best of luck for the next flight!