Space travel
Rocket from a German start-up successfully recovered
The SR75 launch vehicle from the start-up HyImpulse is on its way back to Germany after its test flight in Australia. photo
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For the first time in decades, a commercial launch vehicle from a German company has launched. Now she is on the way back to Germany. The start-up provides initial information about the test flight.
Almost two weeks after its test launch in Koonibba, Australia, the commercial one Launcher from a German start-up on its way to Germany again. A spokesman for the company HyImpulse said she returned after the flight as planned and almost unscathed on the parachute.
According to the company based near Heilbronn, the payload was also recovered intact. The rocket will now be shipped to Germany, where it will be examined in detail.
The twelve meter long rocket took off at the beginning of May. This was the first time in decades that a German company had launched a commercial launch vehicle. According to the start-up, the SR75 launch vehicle is powered by paraffin (candle wax) and liquid oxygen. It can therefore transport a payload of 250 kilograms and, according to co-CEO and co-founder Christian Stricher, is also capable of flying into space.
According to Streicher, the company wants to use the launch vehicle to make a particularly flexible offer for small satellites.