This launcher is about to displace the V-2 as Germany’s largest rocket
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/this-launcher-is-about-to-displace-the-v-2-as-germanys-largest-rocket/
This launcher is about to displace the V-2 as Germany’s largest rocket
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/this-launcher-is-about-to-displace-the-v-2-as-germanys-largest-rocket/
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Heads up, London. Just when you thought it was safe….
That is… that is a choice for a headline, ArsTech.
Damn, Germany had a really advanced rocket program for a little while there, I wonder what happened 🤔
Hopefully this one end up with a different destination than its predecessors
This is the new biggest German rocket, not the biggest Nazi rocket. That title goes to SpaceX.
Make Germany Great Again. MGGA!
Rolls off the tongue that one.
Y’all wanna read up on OTRAG which was a highly adventurous German funded rocketry company with the goal to build an orbital class rocket.
Overall a spectacular failure, but they built some hardware and did several test launches.
Or simply watch the Scott Manley video 😉
I remember seeing a V-2 at the Smithsonian Air & Space museum in DC. It’s a pretty tiny rocket (ie, it’s standing upright on a platform inside the museum with some room still to spare).
So, it sounds like the Germans haven’t really made any rockets in 80 years, which is a lot longer than I would have expected.
Admittedly the V2 is comparatively small when brought up against modern standards.
This is only correct because all bigger rockets build in Germany are European and not German only…
Anyways, what bullshit of headline is this?