California-based launch service Astra Space suffered a major blow in its quest to join the club of new ventures partnering with NASA after its rocket failed to deliver the startup's first commercial payload to orbit. More here:
suffered a major blow in its quest to join the burgeoning club of new ventures partnering with NASA, as its rocket failed on Thursday to deliver the startup's first commercial payload to orbit.
Astra's two-stage, kerosene-fueled Launch Vehicle 0008, also known as Rocket 3.3, was carrying four miniature research satellites, or CubeSats, for NASA. Three of them were developed by public universities and one by the space agency itself.Word of the mission's failure came about 14 minutes after the 38-foot-tall rocket blasted off at 3 p.m.
Astra director of product management Carolina Grossman finally broke the suspense to announce that an unspecified "issue has been experienced during flight that prevented the delivery of our customer payloads to orbit."
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