
How Europe is catching up with the USA in space travel and finding new hope after years of lagging behind.
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Europe often lags behind technologically, but then catches up and establishes world-class programs such as Copernicus and Galileo.
There seem to be two immutable laws in space travel: First, the Europeans are years behind the Americans. Secondly, at some point they catch up and are then even better than the model.
The Europeans only built the Copernicus earth observation satellite and the Galileo navigation system in space long after the corresponding US satellites had already existed. Now both European space programs are among the best of their kind in the world.
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The first rocket developed and built in Germany by Isar Aerospace has successfully reached space and put five satellites into orbit. Politicians see this as an important signal, but emphasize Europe's massive need to catch up with the USA and China in the field of space travel.

The Bavarian start-up Isar Aerospace completed an orbital flight from European soil for the first time with the successful launch of the “Spectrum” carrier rocket from the Norwegian spaceport Andoya.

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With the successful launch of the Spectrum rocket from northern Norway, the German start-up Isar Aerospace launched satellites into space with a German rocket for the first time and made Germany the 13th spacefaring nation.
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