Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

Congratulation and great news ! For Europe, but also the world, space access is one of those frontiers we can (and I believe will) see truly opened in my lifetime and I find that truly awesome.

Interestingly there still seems to be a difference in approach between "few launch, expected to go well" in europe and "many launch as trial and error" in the US, with other countries falling somewhere in between those two limits, it's often seen as a threat here of "if we don't do more more often we won't make any progress" but ignoring the economical side (and I think it's fair, given than even with massive subsidies SpaceX is not financially viable until it feed itself through Starlink) it's been a remarkable series of years for new European vehicules launch success.

Also one thing I have to point:

> Europe now has sovereign access to space.

I understand what is meant here, and of course said company need to push that forward, but French Guyana is full french territory, it's not even a foreign territory. It's part of the EU (known as the outermost region of the European Union), EU law applies, it's citizens are EU citizens, EU citizens from other countries can freely move and work and live there ... It's technicaly more EU than Norway.

But less Europe than Norway, sure. Still, on the context of "sovereign access", I would argue both side of that coin have their attributes, and for long term sovereignty I would prefer EU territory instead of "inside-europe-Belarus" for exemple.

There will be some chain reaction up there in near future, in our lifetime only.

Congratulation to the team.

These milestones are necessary to advancement of human race as we need new planets to occupy.

But, we needed clear path going forward. I am both pro to advancement but with caution kind of guy.

Congratulations ISAR

This is a huge achievement and every person involved should be very proud.

Please oblige me by not writing anything political in reply, let's just celebrate!

This might even influence today's election in Sachsen. With a bit of luck, it could turn a few voters to a more optimistic world view.

Amazing achievement!

Awesome

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580369

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