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Isar Aerospace says it learned a lot from Sunday launch attempt.

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A German company's first attempt to launch an orbital rocket ended after just 18 seconds on Sunday. Isar Aerospace's Spectrum started wobbling just after it cleared the launch site on Norway's coast and as it started to tumble controllers cut the engines and it fell to the fjord below in a huge explosion.