Carrier rocket developed by German start-up due for take-off next year | DW Business

With the space industry growing rapidly, private sector satellites will soon be crowding up the orbit.

A carrier rocket developed by Munich-based start-up Isar Aerospace is due for take-off next year. Developers hope it will be the first of many launches.

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[hereLiesThisTroper]

Germans build rockets

London: *visible sweating*

[patrickfernandez]

It sounds more like they are competing with RocketLab rather than with SpaceX given the market they are targetting

[t-atank]

Mom germany is testing another V2 rocket!!! Lol

[asifhasan]

German's V2 rocket was the first rocket to reach outer space.
Hope they will catch up with the big powers soon.

[paterson]

I should love to see in my lifetime Vernher Von Braun’s dream of a rotating large space station hotel for tourists just like the one in the film 2001 A Space Odyssey.

[vangelissotiropoulos]

Too many government imposed hurdles for start ups. Not easy for a European company to compete

[ValMephora]

I wish Isar Aerospace the best luck.
Would love to see what they can accomplish.

[gd-news]

bavaria: AHA! hahahahaha.... oktoberfest!!!

[zzubra]

There are a large number of startups trying to build rockets for launching small satellites, and RocketLab is already serving that market pretty well. So, it’s not necessarily going to be easy for a new small-sat launcher to find a market.

[DugganSean]

So a German version of RocketLab.. who are already working on reuse of their first stage and a medium sized man rated launcher..

[flyingraccoons]

It will be nice to see some new companies from other countries in space

[Mesozoic_mammal]

London will be used to calibrate the new german rockets, prior to actual space flight.
That worked well before

[wololocute]

Germany had world's first space startup but Germany didn't help them and raised many hurdles.

[MarkIsAsleep]

Instead of comparing it to spacex compare it first to electron rockets. They have the same beliefs on market. SpaceX doesn't care that much on satellites but use profit from there to get to mars

[stevemickler]

I remember the Sanger 2 with a winged ramjet carrier vehicle and a winged rocket powered shuttle being promoted at a NASA conference I attended in 1985. Next door was the scramjet X-31 and I became convinced that the two part space plane alternative the Germans proposed represented the alternative that could affordably be built with the then current tech. Such a pity it wasn't built.

[peterweber]

I'm a huge fan of SpaceX and Elon, but as a strong believer in Europe, seeing the EU flag nearly made me cry

[AB-zlnh]

It's nice to see the EU flag with the German one side by side.

[CrusadeVoyager]

Day is not far behind when we will see space flights similar to humans nowadays taking a plane to travel. Exciting days ahead in space flight, welcome aboard Germany.

[Frederick]

i invested in rocketlab (VACQ), they are already operational getting toward reusability. So at least 5 years ahead of them, maybe 10.

[sudipdas]

Space will now have a taste of “Made in Germany” 😎