Astra launch fails on first TROPICS flight for NASA
The first of three flights to launch the TROPICS satellites for NASA lifted off on Sunday during at 1:43 PM EDT (17:43 UTC). Astra's LV0010 vehicle launched from SLC-46 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, making the company's seventh orbital launch attempt.
After a nominal first stage burn, the upper stage engine shut down early. As a result, the vehicle and payloads were lost.
[...] TROPICS-1 was Astra's seventh orbital launch attempt since the first and only flight of Rocket 3.1 in September 2020. After a few test flights that fell short of orbit, Astra successfully placed the LV0007 vehicle's upper stage with a hosted US Space Force payload into orbit from Kodiak in November 2021.
The next launch, LV0008 in February 2022, was Astra's first from Cape Canaveral's SLC-46 and the company's first for NASA. The ELaNa-41 mission failed to deploy multiple CubeSats into orbit due to a fairing separation failure. The following mission, LV0009 from Kodiak, was the first to successfully deploy payloads into orbit for Spaceflight Inc. in March 2022.
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(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 14 2022, @01:30AM (6 children)
Low-down on Astra?
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Sorry, got carried away a bit there.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 14 2022, @02:07AM (1 child)
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(Score: 1) by liar on Tuesday June 14 2022, @02:36PM
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday June 14 2022, @04:37AM (1 child)
There are a million different smallsat launchers. NASA is supporting some of them to have more variety in launch options. A lot of them are going to go bankrupt before even a launch attempt. So Astra is better than those at least.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 14 2022, @05:36PM
This launch attempt gives them a 2/9 (2/7 orbital) success rate, mostly due to what look like quality control issues. That's better than Pythom, but still not a good look.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 14 2022, @02:24AM
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I feel the warmth, like someone giving me a nice big hug, and I fall asleep.
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