Spectrum

Vehicles 3-7 are already in production. Reuters reported on September 15 that Isar intends to complete its third flight soon after the September 5 orbital debut. FAZ, citing Metzler after the launch, said the third vehicle was in final preparation and that flights four through seven should go in 2027, all from Norway.

On July 2, 2026 Planet Labs Germany booked a next-generation Pelican Earth-observation satellite, to be assembled at Planet's new Berlin factory, on Spectrum from Andoya, billed as the first German-built satellite on a German-built rocket. The agreement aimed for a first launch within 12 months, with the vehicle 'currently scheduled as early as late 2026.' That late-2026 window is now tight against the just-completed qualification flight.

CCO Stella Guillen said on September 15 that Isar is scheduling at least four flights next year, the first year that is supposed to look like a commercial cadence rather than a test program. 2028 capacity is already fully contracted and described as a little more than double that 2027 plan. Meeting the demand the company says it is seeing would take nearly 200 Spectrum-class vehicles in 2028, a figure Guillen gave without a matching backlog number.

Astroscale Japan selected Spectrum on September 1, 2026 to launch ADRAS-J2, the JAXA Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration follow-on that will try to capture and deorbit a roughly 3-ton H-IIA upper stage. Target window is 2027-2028 from Andoya. It is Isar's second Astroscale-group booking after ELSA-M (Astroscale FY2028 or later). Spectrum's September 5 orbital debut is the flight heritage Astroscale had said it wanted first.