The German company that built the orbital rocket, Isar Aerospace, headquartered in Ottobrunn, southeast of Munich, still hailed the test flight a success. Liftoff took place at 12:30 p.m. from ...

The company that developed the new rocket, dubbed Spectrum, is German-based Isar Aerospace. Spectrum is 28 metres tall, composed of two stages and uses oxygen and propane as propellant.