A first-of-its-kind European rocket launch ended in the Norwegian Sea when Isar Aerospace's unmanned rocket exploded just 40 seconds after takeoff.

The Germany company's first Spectrum rocket lifted off Sunday morning (March 30) from Andøya Spaceport in northern Norway on ...

Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30).

The first flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket didn't last long on Sunday. The booster's nine engines switched off as ...

The first-ever launch of the German Isar Aerospace company's Spectrum two-stage rocket was scrubbed Monday due to weather conditions.

There are no customer satellites aboard the first Spectrum test flight. The rocket will climb into a polar orbit from Andøya ...

Developed by German start-up Isar Aerospace, the Spectrum rocket, started smoking from its sides after being launched in the air. Isar Aerospace did not expect to reach orbit with the launch. The ...

Spectrum clears the launch pad before reversing course and ... The first test flight of Falcon 1, an early version of the workhorse rocket, similarly failed after about 30 seconds.

Isar Aerospace is preparing to launch its Spectrum rocket from a base in Norway, which would make it the first orbital launch from continental Europe outside Russia ...

A German-built test rocket, Spectrum, exploded 40 seconds after launching from Norway's Andoya Spaceport in a historic attempt to establish satellite launches from Europe. Despite the failure, ...

Even in the shadow of larger launch companies, like SpaceX, Rocket Lab shows there's real profit to be made in focusing on ...

Plenty more launches are to come, including another test of SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket, which exploded while in flight in March. Blue Origin is also set to send Katy Perry into space aboard its ...