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Astra’s Failed Mission Results in the Loss of NASA’s TROPICS Weather Satellites—Issues Persist?

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. It is one ...
Yahoo

Astra's NASA mission suffers failure, loss of weather satellites

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Rocket firm Astra Space's mission to send tiny storm-monitoring NASA satellites to orbit on Sunday failed after a second-stage booster engine shut down early in space. The ...
AOL

Updates: Astra launches NASA mission from Florida, but fails to reach orbit

Update: Astra launched its Rocket 3.3 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 1:43 p.m. ET Sunday, but the mission to take two NASA payloads failed to reach orbit. The upper stage's engine cut out ...
WFTV

Another mission failure for Astra Space: Here’s what’s next

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Another launch, another mission failure for Astra Space. This time, two NASA weather satellites were lost when the upper stage of Astra’s rocket shut down early before those ...
CNET

NASA Satellites Lost as Astra Rocket Mission Goes Awry

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Space ...
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UPDATE 1-Astra's NASA mission suffers failure, loss of weather satellites

WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - Rocket firm Astra Space's mission to send tiny storm-monitoring NASA satellites to orbit on Sunday failed after a second-stage booster engine shut down early in space.