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WASHINGTON – Rocket company Astra Space’s mission to send NASA’s meteorological monitoring satellites into orbit failed Sunday after a second-stage booster engine shut down in space. according to the live broadcast of the company’s mission.
The crash came about 10 minutes after a successful launch of the Astra 3.3 rocket from a launch pad at the Cape Canaveral space force station in Florida.
“We had a nominal first-stage flight. However, the upper stage engine shut down prematurely and we did not deliver our payloads into orbit,” said the live commentator on Astra, Amanda Durk Frye. (Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)