A rocket strikes a NATO member's territory.

A Swedish research rocket has malfunctioned and landed in Norway. The TEXUS-58 rocket blasted off from the Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden on Monday morning and took a slightly longer and more westerly trajectory than expected. The payload was recovered and transported back to the Swedish launch site, and an investigation is ongoing. The rocket was part of a program commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) and flew to the altitude of 250 kilometers with three microgravity experiments on board. Two of the experiments, VIPer and Perwaves, are related to “green transition” research, while the third, dubbed ICAPS, investigated the process of planetary formation.