There are no customer satellites aboard the first Spectrum test flight. The rocket will climb into a polar orbit from Andøya ...

But the V-2 wasn’t the only rocket-powered ... and to this day, no orbital rocket has ever launched from German soil.

Are you aware that the first rocket that made it to space was actually built for war? The German V-2 A4 rocket, launched off the Baltic coast, achieved an altitude of almost 190 km – high above ...

Walter Dornberger (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-009-33 / CC-BY-SA 3.0) This is the world in which V-2, written by the head of the German rocket development program Walter Dornberger, takes place.

The rocket was introduced by the Germans in 1944 and was 14m long A German V2 rocket from World War II has been found nose down in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour in the east coast of England.

A German rocket exploded during a test launch at the SaxaVord Spaceport on the northern Shetland Islands. The causes of the ...

At White Sands, N.Mex., Army scientists succeeded for the first time last week in maneuvering (up & down, right & left) a German V-2 rocket in flight. It was the most important advance in guided ...