The rocket was launched from Andøya, west of Narvik, at 10 p.m. and is now in orbit around the Earth.
According to NRK, it is the first rocket launched from Western Europe to send its payload into orbit around the Earth.
This is a huge success and one of the biggest things that has happened in European space travel in a very, very long time, says Kjellmar Oksavik, leader of the space physics group at the University of Bergen, to VG .
