Posted on 02/10/2022 12:10:10 PM PST by Houserino
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- California-based Astra Space plans to launch a NASA mission from Florida on Thursday for the third attempt in a week for the new space company.
If successful, Astra would become the first new private company to launch from Florida since SpaceX did so over a decade ago.
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Oh well, they've had zero luck so far.
ouch!
Looks like the stock trading has been halted too. Really weird how they can just do that on any bad news it seems.
Looked like a problem right before fairing sep.
Shame, a clean launch otherwise.
Replay of the second stage tumbling at ignition
https://rumble.com/vum3wa-replay-of-the-second-stage-of-astra-tumbling-at-ignition.html
Astra's stock fell 5% from its previous close of $5.29 a share before being halted for volatility.
The company confirmed there was an issue mid-flight that prevented the rocket from delivering a set four cube satellites to orbit on a NASA-funded mission.
"I'm deeply sorry we were not able to deliver our customer's payloads. I'm with the team looking at data, and we will provide more info as soon as we can," Astra CEO Chris Kemp said in a tweet.
The New York Stock Exchange halted the stock at 3:05 p.m. ET, as the upper stage of the rocket appeared to be tumbling out of control on the company's webcast of the launch.
The NASA mission marked Astra's first launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral. The company reached orbit for the first time three months ago
looks like the faring’s didnt separate correctly, and caused first stage to contact second stage, second stage started toi tumble.. sad but rockets are hard, they will get it right
SpaceX’s Falcon 1 failed 3 times like Astra’s first 3, but Musk said that if the 4th failed he’d throw in the towel. I’m not sure how many more failures Astra can survive really.
Second stage is inside the fairing.
Fairing didn’t deploy.
Second stage ignited while still inside fairing.
Why would NASA assign them a job to launch a payload into orbit before they ever demonstrate their ability with a dummy weight & mechanical equivalent first?
Maybe Astra has all the correct woke attributes and has none of the engineering design, testing, and construction qualifications (which are all “white privilege” characteristics)...
Exactly.
When I see failures, I immediately think of affirmative action.
Those graduates from engineering school who think math is racist fill their held/waiting positions in American industry.
not sure either... they have investors too, stock for sale.
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