DLR has finished testing Callisto’s nose cone and is shipping it to CNES in France. The German–French–Japanese demonstrator will make eight increasingly demanding hops and two final flights over about eight months from 2027, from a pad in French Guiana. Our take: landing rockets is no longer exotic, but Europe still has to learn it for itself.
8 + 2test and demo flights
~8months of hops
2027first hop