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NASA’s Earth-observing TROPICS satellites presumably lost as Astra rocket fails to make orbit
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The California-based rocket firm Astra failed to deliver NASA's weather-monitoring satellites into space after a second-stage booster engine shut down.
Bradford Betz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to bradford.betz@fox.com and on Twitter: @Bradford_Betz.
The rocket had a nominal first lower stage flight. But about eight minutes after take-off, the upper-stage engine shut down early and did not deliver payloads to orbit, Astra’s livestream commentator Amanda Durk Frye said.
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