Astra did not expect this failure again, and now the world suffers its loss. Astra failed to deliver on its first mission earlier today, and it is collaborating with NASA to provide the TROPICS Weather Satellite to orbit for the planet's need for storm monitoring.
Two Nasa satellites aimed to study the formation and development of tropical cyclones almost every hour were lost during launch aboard an Astra rocket that suffered major failure shortly after liftoff. The Astra rocket, called Launch Vehicle 0010 (LV0010), suffered a second-stage failure after lifting off from a pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:43 pm EDT (11:13 pm IST) on Sunday.
Rocket launch company Astra isn’t starting out with the best track record, after it’s latest mission for NASA ended in failure just a few months after its last rocket carrying payloads for the agency failed to reach orbit. The TROPICS mission included two cubesats intended to join NASA’s existing constellation by the same name. […]
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