Rocket crashes shortly after the launch in Andøya.



by RoadandHardtail

18 comments
  1. Quite a bad choice to do something related to communication during a Mercury retrograde period. (The earlier Shetland rocket explosion, too, was during a Mercury retrograde period.) Unfortunately, modern scientists keep shooting themselves in the foot by ignoring statistics and nature.

  2. Wait wait wait…. Norway…. chill out…. who are you launching rockets at? What did they do?

  3. This is the first launch for this type of rocket in Andøya, so it is expected to be failed. No one success in the first try, even SpaceX.

  4. very cool try!!! looking forward to the next one and what updates they make so its better 🙂 it warms my heart that we in europe are also stepping up in this sector

  5. This is the Rocket from Isar Aerospace from Germany, the first EU privat Aerospace company. Quiet a succesful launch, because the Launch was main test.

    This company is quit awesome for Europe!

  6. Aerospace engineering prof here. This was actually a very successful outcome. The criterion for success in this mission was clearing the launch pad, as first-time rockets tend to explode when ignited. 

    The engines in this rocket are 3D printed, which is a bit of a risky choice for an orbital rocket, and so the fact that they didn’t fail on ignition is a huge success.

    The rocket failed after it began the pitch maneuver, so the data from the launch will tell the ISAR engineers what went wrong and then in the next launch we will see what goes wrong again until stuff doesn’t go wrong, and then Norway has an incredibly important strategic asset.

  7. Me and my family watched this from our home! Even though it was expected to crash, it still made me kinda sad 🙁

  8. Love how the four people are just chilling out throughout the whole crash and explosion..

  9. «Space is hard» (saying at NASA, originated ca. 1960)

  10. Houston we have a problem…. but on a serious note building rockets is hard

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