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NASA mission suffers shock failure! Astra rocket crashes, 2 satellites lost
On Sunday, June 12, an Astra rocket which was carrying NASA satellites suffered a major malfunction and failed to reach the Earth’s orbit. Astra is a California-based aerospace company which was taking up a payload mission to deliver satellites for NASA. The satellites in the mission were a couple of cubesats (miniature satellites in cube shape) called Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS). This is the second time Astra has failed a NASA mission this year, with the earlier one coming as soon as Mid-February.