Isar Aerospace

The Berlin plan adds in-region production capacity for Earth observation satellites.

The first Berlin-built Pelicans are scheduled to launch on an ISAR Aerospace Spectrum rocket in early 2027.

Planet says it would be the first time a German-built satellite flies on a German-built rocket.

Details of these stories and more are available on the Journal of Space Commerce at www.exterrajsc.com. And that's Space Commerce Week for Sunday, September 27th.

Complete success.

Esau has a spectrum rocket.

This was their second attempt.

The first failed a year, more than a year ago.

Uh, you have a few other kind of smaller range rockets.

Isar Aerospace, you know, we talked about them, the, that German company, um, that just, uh, reached orbit for the first time out of Norway, so y- there's some launch stuff there.

Uh, up in Scotland-

Mm-hmm

If both of these leaders cast a glance in the rear view mirror, however, they just might glimpse a new competitor that has just entered the race behind them.

Its name is Isar Aerospace.

And on screen, this is a couple of different versions of rockets that these companies are sending up.

Anyway, so Isar Aerospace, uh, this new, "new space" quote, unquote, company hails from Germany and launches its rockets out of the Andøya, hope I'm pronouncing that right, launch complex in Norway.

It's not an ideal location for launch, right? So from Andøya, rockets primarily have to launch northward if they want to avoid flying over to, over land to minimize risk to persons on the ground, giving up the advantages of launching with a boost from Earth's eastward spin.

So nor are Isar's rockets particularly powerful relative to the SpaceX Falcon 9, for example, or the Neutron rocket that Rocket Labs will begin flying next year.

Isar River.

All right.

I've been calling it I saw.

But the actual pronunciation of the company is Esau.

They should spell it differently, but that's OK. It's a European company.

Esau has successfully launched its its its spectrum rocket in September.

First, it forced us against the launch, made orbit, deployed its payloads.

It has now gotten a five launch contract from a satellite aggregator called Sea Ops.

A lot of that is going to boil down to the ability for ExoLaunch, the ability for CEOPS, the ability of the suppliers on whom those rideshare operators and the launch integrators work.

Rocket Lab, ISAR, Stokes Space, the launch providers out there, it's going to depend on everybody's ability to both maintain capacity and marginal cost, I think.

Yeah, this is a...

Really interesting.

And that's honestly been the positive take of this whole Falcon 9 pullback, and ultimately its retirement officially this week, is it's prompting a lot of companies that have been kind of slow to catch up to pick up the pace.

And we see that with rocket providers.

I mean, ESAR, Innospace, Skyroot, they're all either... provide like they've already achieved launch or they're very close to achieving launch there's still a huge gap and it's interesting ExoLaunch's approach you know they're buying multiple different vehicles they've already bought a couple of Falcon 9 launches now with this announcement they're buying two more they only clarified what one of them was which is the H3 I found it a little interesting because they were kind of featured on the ISAR launch, the Onward and Upward, their first inaugural launch.

But there, they were just, you know, they were integrators.

You cannot be a sovereign space power if you rely on American or Indian rockets to put your satellites into orbit.

We recently saw actionable progress on that exact front with Germany's ISAR Aerospace.

They successfully launched a rocket from Norway's Andea Spaceport.

A huge milestone for them.