Andøya is the only site in Europe outside French Guiana that has put anything in orbit, and the rocket was German.
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orbital launches from this country in 2026, to 2 October
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orbits reached by its launch firms, ever
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public money to its launch firms, not counting contracts for future launches
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launch firms we cover
Checked 8 October 2026
Launch sites
Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum reached orbit from Andøya on 5 September 2026, at the second try. The first, on 30 March 2025, failed after about 30 seconds.
Andøya Space Center
- What happened
- Sounding rockets since 1962. The orbital pad is Isar Aerospace’s, on a 20-year exclusive deal.
Europe’s second working orbital site is a Norwegian island with one pad, one tenant and one orbit.
Money from company accounts, public registers and ESA contracts; promises from the statements on our company and spaceport pages; launch counts from Jonathan McDowell’s launch log of 7 October 2026. Every figure is on the page it comes from.