German startup Rocket Factory Augsburg successfully performs critical tests ahead of 2022 debut

nasaspaceflight.com ^ | August 30, 2021 | Adrian Beil

[irishjuggler]

Well, let’s face it. The Krauts pretty much pioneered rocket science in the ‘30s/’40s.

[butlerweave]

V3 ?

[I-ambush]

Where would the Germans launch from? The ESA site in Guyana?

[EEGator]

Wernher von Braun was extremely important to the US Space Program as well.

[DesertRhino]

London and Antwerp most affected.

[BenLurkin]

Good question.

Rocket Factory Augsburg selects French Guiana for RFA ONE launches
by scceuSeptember 30, 2020

https://scceu.org/rocket-factory-augsburg-selects-french-guiana-for-rfa-one-launches/

[Leaning Right]

> The engine will use rocket-grade kerosene... <

Wait. They’re burning kerosene in the atmosphere? That’s bound to make you-know-who angry.

[Bonemaker]

The first "startup" German rocket tests:

[DesertRhino]

They copied Goddard. It started right here in the USA.

For all of the hype about the V2, That program wasn’t so good when looked out objectively. In the first place it killed more people making it than it did in use. And they spent the amount of money equivalent to the Manhattan project on it and only delivered explosives on target equivalent to two 8th Air Force thousand plane raids.
And by 1945/1945, we could do those a couple of times a week.

[wetgundog]

Sprocket Factory???

[jmacusa]

V4. Lieber Gott. The Krauts are fooling around with rockets again.

[alexander_busek]

In the first place it killed more people making it than it did in use.

In their eyes, that was a feature, not a bug. They used the slave labor of so-called Untermenschen.

Regards,

[Organic Panic]

I use to work in Augsberg. Interesting little place. Was fun to jump on the train and go in to Munich for the weekends.

[Leaning Right]

Wow. The Allies must have been really close.
🙂

[Campion]

Ze rockets go up,
Who cares where zey come down,
That's not my department
says Werner von Braun.

-- Tom Lehrer

[SmokingJoe]

Wait. They're burning kerosene in the atmosphere? That's bound to make you-know-who angry.

Well almost all commercial planes as well as rockets use kerosene/kerosene based fuel and the enviro nuts regularly fly to their crazy conferences anyway.

[Demiurge2]

I think that’s why the V2 scared the top US military and science heads so much- it only made sense if you were going to top it with a nuke.

[DesertRhino]

Wow... that’s true. The coolest thing Germany did was to try mail rockets. Werner was amazed by Goddard’s ideas and took them forward. Goddard was not supported here well at all.

Rocket mail was going to be a fast, accurate way to deliver mail in the 1930s when NOBODY else even dreamed of such a thing.

Gotta hand it to them.

[AppyPappy]

The first test landed in London