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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The launch window for the mission starts in 2023 and will use Isar Aerospace’s launchpad in Andøya, Norway.
Isar Aerospace is developing a small launch vehicle called Spectrum that is slated to make its maiden launch from Andøya late 2022 or early next year.
Reflex Aerospace, together with partner companies Mynaric and Isar Aerospace, leads the UN:IO consortium assessing the establishment of a 400-satellite constellation for broadband internet on behalf of the European Commission.
Isar Aerospace will use the €10 million prize money to invest in research and development capabilities and in test and launch infrastructure.
Isar Aerospace received €10 million in prize money from the European Commission’s EIC Horizon Prize “Low-Cost Space Launch”.
The European Commission awarded Isar Aerospace for its launch service solution using Spectrum, a two-stage launch vehicle that offers flexible and cost-efficient access to space for small and medium-sized satellites and constellations.
Isar Aerospace had already raised more than 150,000,000 EUR to fund development of Spectrum.
Isar Aerospace expanded a factory for producing Spectrum and established an engine test site in Sweden.
Isar Aerospace won the European Innovation Council Horizon Prize for low-cost space launch and received 10,000,000 EUR.
The UN:IO consortium comprises 14 companies led by satellite manufacturer Reflex Aerospace, launch provider Isar Aerospace, and laser specialist Mynaric.
Isar Aerospace won the first round of the German microlauncher competition in April 2021 and received 11,000,000 EUR towards the launch of institutional payloads on the first two flights.
Exolaunch will provide Isar Aerospace with integration services and the EXOpod small satellite deployer for Spectrum’s first flight.
PLD Space is competing in an unofficial European commercial race to space with German launch startups Isar Aerospace and Rocket Factory Augsburg, both targeting first orbital launches in the second half of 2022.
Between 2022 and 2025, EnduroSat will use Isar Aerospace’s services to launch multiple satellites to orbit from the Norwegian launch site in Andøya.
Under the 2021-09-07 contract, Isar Aerospace will conduct multiple Spectrum launches to deploy more than 10 OroraTech cubesats into sun-synchronous orbit between 2022 and 2026.
On 2021-09-07, Isar Aerospace signed a contract with OroraTech to launch the company’s wildfire monitoring cubesat constellation.
Isar Aerospace is developing the two-stage Spectrum rocket to launch payloads of up to 700 kg to sun-synchronous orbit.
Isar Aerospace secured an additional $75,000,000 in Series B funding after signing the initial launch customer agreements.
Isar Aerospace won the German Space Agency DLR’s microlauncher competition, beating Rocket Factory Augsburg and HyImpulse Technologies, to secure an 11-million-euro prize.
OroraTech is the second customer to sign a launch contract with Isar Aerospace after Airbus Defence and Space agreed in April to launch an Earth observation satellite aboard a Spectrum rocket.