Isar aerospace first test-flight (live)

Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace startup based in Munich, Germany, and was founded in 2018.

Follow the first test flight live on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/IKLQxe2MvpQ

Launch site: Andøya Spaceport, Norway

The launch window for 'Going full Spectrum' opens not earlier than 12:30pm CEST/ 10:30 UTC and remains subject to weather, safety and range infrastructure. The livestream begins after a conclusive launch poll at approximately 12:15pm CEST/ 10:15am UTC.

congrats on the launch! unfortunately we witnessed a rapid unscheduled disassembly -- rooting for the next launch!

video of the disassembly: https://tv.vg.no/nyheter/se-den-historiske-rakettoppskytning...

Very interesting that livestream count-up stopped at T+18s right as the PAO calling pitch-over maneuver, well before it started overcorrecting and had gone sideways(figuratively and literally) on camera, and then resumed erratically from T+41s.

Aren't T+ times tracked externally for trajectory calculation purposes, in parallel to being timed onboard for control purposes - like, guys at the pad clicks his stopwatch as he sees a green light and yells the reading into the phone ASAP so that guys in places like Hawaii or Africa knows when to start waving their dishes in a sweeping arc, while the vehicle itself operate valves and fire mechanisms as it sees fit?

I'm just a space fan, but if they were taking T-time on stream from vehicle telemetry rather than just one-shot syncing at launch, I feel that's rather original, and, absolutely no offense, but find it very German.

Congrats from Munich on the launch, Isar Aerospace!