Andøya Space Center, located on Andøya island in northern Norway, is a rocket launch site and spaceport facilitating suborbital and orbital launches. Since 1962, it has supported sounding rocket and balloon operations for space agencies like NASA, ESA, and JAXA, as well as various international universities and institutes. Andøya Space is expanding its capabilities to include commercial satellite launches into polar and sun-synchronous orbits and operates the ALOMAR lidar observatory for atmospheric research. Key partners include Kongsberg Defence Systems, Isar Aerospace and Rocket Factory Augsburg.
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Contracts between ESA and Isar Aerospace have secured two missions with the Spectrum launch vehicle from the Andøya Space Center in Norway.
German rocket developer Isar Aerospace has exclusive access to the first launch site at Andøya built to Isar Aerospace’s specifications.
Isar Aerospace arranged a 20-year exclusive lease for one of two launch pads being built at Norway’s Andøya Space Center.
Isar Aerospace aims to debut Spectrum in 2022 from Norway’s Andøya Space Center.
The 20-year lease at Andøya Space Center will enable Isar Aerospace to deploy payloads into sun-synchronous and polar orbits.