Spectrum
Spectrum
Ottobrunn has long been established as an aerospace location. In this Bavarian municipality, the company Isar Aerospace, founded in 2018, develops and produces its ‘Spectrum’ launch vehicle. The 28-metre-long small launcher has a two-stage design and uses light hydrocarbons and liquid oxygen as propellants. The engines are being tested in Kiruna (northern Sweden). The Spectrum rocket is to be launched into space from the Norwegian island of Andøya and from the European spaceport in French Guyana, carrying small satellites weighing up to 1000 kilograms into low Earth orbit. On Andøya, where suborbital research rockets have been taking off since the 1960s, a new spaceport is currently being built for the launch of this class of satellites. The Ottobrunn-based start-up has now secured an exclusive launch site there for the next 20 years. The picture shows the Spectrum upper stage in the assembly hall at Isar Aerospace in Ottobrunn.
