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A spectacular event. I urge everybody to find the video. Bob will make it easy for you.

Of a German rocket, I saw, taking off.

And then, Bob, what was I witnessing?

And what was that background?

Where were they?

All right. This is actually an extremely significant launch attempt in the Andear, NDAO,

end of spaceport, new orbital spaceport that Norway is established on its,

uh,

western coast.

Uh,

I saw aerospace is a German rocket startup that wants to launch its

spectrum rocket.

That rocket would be a competitive with SpaceX's Falcon 9 and uh, uh, uh, rocket labs proposed

neutron rocket as well as fireflies alpha rocket. It would be right in the market here to get

business. But what's significant about is, I saw, is a German rocket startup. It is not a government

operated, uh, rocket, uh, production, uh,-operated rocket production setup, such as Europe

has used now for pretty much its whole history. It is not a government rocket. It was designed

and built by this private startup with funding both private as well as government investment.

And so this is their first launch attempt, and they did it from Norway, which was the first

time, and orbital launch was attempted from the European continent.

The launch did not succeed as a launch.

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