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.
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
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)...