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Europe Finally Gets Its Own SpaceX Challenger As Isar Reaches Orbit
Europe Finally Gets Its Own SpaceX Challenger As Isar Reaches Orbit
At 10:12pm local time on Saturday, a 92-foot rocket built by Munich startup Isar Aerospace lifted off from a windswept island above the Arctic Circle and reached orbit, where it deployed five small satellites into a roughly 500-km orbit on what was only its second flight, making it the first commercial European company to deliver payloads to orbit and the first successful commercial orbital launch from continental Europe.
Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket takes off from the Andøya Spaceport in Norway on Sept. 5. Source: Isar...
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In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its scope. The Supreme Court employed a particularly narrow approach during much of the last century, through two world wars and then the Red Scare in the 1950s. Thankfully, in the 1960s, the Warren Court began […]
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