They will try again. Here's CBS on it all:
. . .A test rocket aimed at building the ability to launch satellites from Europe exploded about 40 seconds after takeoff from a Norwegian spaceport on Sunday.
The unmanned Spectrum rocket, an orbital rocket developed by German start-up Isar Aerospace, started smoking from its sides and then crashed back to Earth with a powerful explosion after launching from Norway's Andoya Spaceport in the Arctic.
Daniel Metzler, Isar's chief executive and co-founder, said in a news release "We had a clean liftoff, 30 seconds of flight and even got to validate our Flight Termination System. . . ."
Spectrum's blast-off was the first of an orbital launch vehicle from the European continent, excluding Russia, and Europe's first financed almost exclusively by the private sector. . . .
Now you know. Kinda' like. . . "Death of a Unicorn" yesterday. Hah -- see below -- updated, at 38 minutes in:
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