Hopefully the winds will stay calm through early Saturday morning in the northern latitudes around Andøya, Norway.
We shall see, but here is the newly revised time-line/launch window from the privately-funded rocketeer:
. . .Isar Aerospace, based near Munich, Germany, is scheduled to make the first-ever launch attempt of its Spectrum two-stage rocket no earlier than Saturday, March 29, at 11:30 UTC from the Orbital Launch Pad at the Andøya Space Center in Norway. An earlier attempt on Monday, March 24 was scrubbed due to high winds.
Isar is targeting the beginning of a three-hour window that ends at 14:30 UTC. . . .
The Spectrum rocket will be flying on a northwest trajectory over the Norwegian Sea, which would take any payload into a retrograde orbit, although no customer payloads are on board this flight. Andøya, at 69 degrees North latitude and above the Arctic Circle, is one of the most northerly rocket launch sites in the world and can support orbital inclinations between 90 and 110.6 degrees. Andøya is planned to support up to 30 orbital launches per year. . . .
Now you know. Smiling, onward.
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