Rocket crashes back to Earth just moments after launch in Norway

bbc ^

[BenLurkin]

German start-up Isar Aerospace developed the rocket and had warned ahead of the test that the initial launch could end prematurely. The company said 30 seconds of flight was enough time to register data.

"Our first test flight met all our expectations, achieving a great success,"

[BenLurkin]

Nice video at the link

[Steely Tom]

Rocket science is hard.

[Secret Agent Man]

The professionals make it look easy, like anyone can do it. /spacex

[V_TWIN]

“Our first test flight met all our expectations, achieving a great success,” the firm’s co-founder Daniel Metzler said.”

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UH HUH....👌

[dragnet2]

The unelected Nazi spaceman agrees.

[Red Badger]

[DownInFlames]

Since 1943. NASA today still can’t get it right after their 1st engineers retired.

[dfwgator]

Werhner Von Braun would not be impressed.

[logi_cal869]

...had warned ahead of the test that the initial launch could end prematurely. "Our first test flight met all our expectations, achieving a great success,"

That's some most excellent euroweenie excrement right there.

[Magnum44]

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Not much spin, in Norway. Tough place to take up rocketry.

Might want to stick to Viking boats.

[ClaytonForester]

“Our first test flight met all our expectations, achieving a great success,”

They expected it to crash a few seconds after launch? What would have constituted failure?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“Great success”, right. If I got performance that lousy from an Estes kit, I’d demand my money back.

[The Antiyuppie]

“Our first test flight met all our expectations, achieving a great success”

Not landing in London or Antwerp is definitely an improvement.

[voicereason]

Damn metric system.

[StAnDeliver]

The test was actually to fry fish right in the water. Success!

[mewzilla]

I wonder how much USAID money the company got..? 🤔

[null and void]

Werhner Von Braun would not be impressed.

Werhner Von Braun crashed a LOT of V-2s, before he realized that quickly sucking the fuel and oxidizer out of the tanks allowed outside air pressure even at altitude to crush the rocket like an aluminum soda can.

It didn't help that in the early 1940s no one had ever seen an aluminum soda can...

[BenLurkin]

Remember, always, everyone...

[rx]

Isar Aerospace is based in Munich, Germany where the River Isar flows.

The horrible way the conservatives (AfD, Alternativ fuer Deutschland) are currently treated should give us an idea of DEI's successes at rooting out the meritocracy we might have associated with hard-nosed Germans of several decades past.

A large percentage of Germans have suffered economically over the last couple of decades. Concomitantly has come significant losses in their quality of life.

78% have gotten the jab.