Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider founded in 2018. They are developing "Spectrum," a two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket designed to launch small to medium-sized satellites (up to 1,000 kg) into low Earth orbit. Isar Aerospace operates launch sites in Andøya, Norway and intends to launch from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana and has secured contracts with customers like Airbus Defence and Space and the Norwegian Space Agency. The company's key investors include the NATO Innovation Fund, Earlybird, Airbus Ventures, and Lakestar.
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Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum launch vehicle will launch Exotrail’s spacevan™ vehicles to low Earth orbit (LEO) and geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
Isar Aerospace is based in Ottobrunn/Munich and develops and builds launch vehicles for transporting small and medium-sized satellites and satellite constellations into Earth orbit.
Exotrail signed a launch services agreement with Isar Aerospace to launch Exotrail’s spacevan orbital transfer vehicle on Isar’s Spectrum rocket on multiple missions between 2024 and 2029.
Isar Aerospace signed a binding term sheet with CNES to conduct commercial and institutional launch operations at CSG beginning in 2024.
The first test flight of Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum launch vehicle will take place from the Andøya orbital launch pad in Norway.
Isar Aerospace will build dedicated facilities at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in French Guiana.
The French Space Agency CNES selected Isar Aerospace to operate its rockets at the Diamant site of the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in French Guiana.
The Guiana Space Center pad will enable Isar Aerospace to launch to orbits ranging from near-equatorial to polar.
Isar Aerospace signed a binding term sheet with the French space agency CNES on 2022-07-21 to launch its Spectrum rocket from the Diamant launch complex at the Guiana Space Center near Kourou, French Guiana.
The French Guiana site will be able to support up to 10 launches per year, the same annual capacity as Isar Aerospace’s Andøya pad.
Isar Aerospace will be the first company selected in an open competition by CNES to use the converted Diamant facility.
The Diamant launch complex at the Guiana Space Center will host Isar Aerospace launches starting in the first half of 2024.
The launch vehicle that will take ION to orbit is not the mission D-Orbit announced 2022-06-22 with Isar Aerospace.
Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum launch vehicle will launch D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier as a primary customer to sun-synchronous orbit from Andøya, Norway with a launch term starting in 2023.
Isar Aerospace is based in Ottobrunn/Munich and develops and builds launch vehicles for transporting small and medium-sized satellites and satellite constellations into Earth orbit.
Isar Aerospace is providing the German government up to 150 kg of payload space on each of its first two Spectrum flights.
The payload selection competition is part of an €11 million award Isar Aerospace received from DLR and the European Space Agency in April 2021.
DLR began inviting applications on 2022-06-20 for free flights on Isar Aerospace’s second mission, which is slated to fly in 2023.
Isar Aerospace plans to launch an orbital transfer vehicle for Italian space logistics company D-Orbit no earlier than 2023.
D-Orbit is the primary customer for the mission to sun-synchronous orbit that will use Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum launch vehicle.