Ars Technica reports Isar Aerospace achieved a major milestone for Europe’s commercial space sector Saturday, successfully launching its Spectrum rocket into low-Earth orbit. The German company, “founded in 2018 by three students at a German university,” launched the privately developed rocket from a Norwegian spaceport inside the Arctic Circle.
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MQ-4C Triton Makes Five Hour Flight Within the Arctic Circle, Validates Navigation Capability
The Aviationist reports, “Northrop Grumman’s MQ-4C Triton High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) surveillance and intelligence UAV ‘successfully demonstrated’ its ‘navigation system’s ability to operate at high latitudes deep within the Arctic Circle,’ the company said in a release on Sep. 19, 2024.”
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