#Falcon1 failed three times before tasting success. #Spectrum is somewhat larger and more capable than Falcon 1, with performance in line with #Firefly's Alpha rocket.

The fully assembled Spectrum rocket stands about 28 meters tall and measures more than 2 meters in diameter. The expendable launcher is designed to haul payloads up to 1 metric ton (2,200 pounds) into #LEO https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/this-launcher-is-about-to-displace-the-v-2-as-germanys-largest-rocket

The "easy start" of #SpaceX : "@elonmusk said he made $180m when #PayPal was acquired by #eBay in 2002, and he initially put $90m into #SpaceX and #Tesla, but the costs kept mounting.
He said 2008 was an incredibly difficult year - SpaceX's #Falcon1 rocket failed for the third time, and Tesla almost went bankrupt two days before Christmas.
By this point, he only had about $40m left." https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43365710