Adrian Beil of NASASpaceFlight.com (and a long-time beloved member of the Off-Nominal Discord) joins me to talk about the state of German and European launch, with new entrants Rocket Factory Augsburgand Isar Aerospace getting close to the launch pad, many others working their way there, and institutional launch struggling amidst delays and geopolitics.

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Topics

• Adrian Beil (@BCCarCounters) / Twitter
• Adrian Beil, Author at NASASpaceFlight.com
• Off-Nominal
• Rocket Factory Augsburg
• Isar Aerospace
• HyImpulse
• Rocket Factory Augsburg on Twitter: “Four days since we wrote history in Europe – and (of course) we still get goosebumps when watching the video! Now we want to share with you again four moments from our most exciting 280 seconds ever!”
• The biggest Meet & Greet of the European space community! - Space Creator Day

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