Isar Aerospace successfully launched its Spectrum rocket from the Andøya Space Center in Norway on September 5, 2026, placing five scientific satellites and an experiment into orbit.

The mission marks a milestone as the second stage of the rocket deployed a CubeSat payload into low Earth orbit, making Isar Aerospace the first European company and the first rocket departing from continental Europe to achieve orbital flight.

The launch involved a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, the French Space Agency, and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.