With the publication of the first experimental measurements performed at the facility, the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (EuXFEL) has passed another critical milestone since its launch in September 2017. It is the first of a “next generation” of XFELs that offer much more rapid data collection than was possible before. As the EuXFEL delivers X-ray pulses at the almost unbelievable rate of one million pulses per second, experimental measurements can be completed more quickly, allowing more experiments to be carried out per year. It was not obvious however, that current measurement techniques would be able to handle this deluge of X-ray pulses. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and from Rutgers University in Newark, USA, working with an international team of collaborators and scientists from DESY and the EuXFEL, have now demonstrated that not only can this be done, but also that high quality structural information on biological molecules is obtained. This is a breakthrough for the facility and for structural biologists using XFELs worldwide.