NASA Satellite Launch to Monitor Natural Tropical Cyclone Fails

KOMPAS.com – Launch mission satellite small company Astra rocket Space in partnership with the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to monitor storms into failed orbit.

The plan is for this satellite to be sent into orbit on June 12, 2022. The failure of the satellite delivery was due to the second stage booster engine that died early in space.

The failure occurred approximately 10 minutes after successfully taking off from Rocket 3.3 Astra at 13:43 ET (1743 GMT) from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

“Even though today’s launch didn’t go as planned, the mission offers a huge opportunity for science and new launch capabilities,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, head of NASA’s Science Unit. CNAMonday (13/6/2022).

NASA partners to launch low-cost science payloads as a way of spurring growth in the rocket industry.

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As for the rocket in satellite launch mission It carried two small satellites designed by the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Satellite will be used to measure humidity and precipitation in tropical storm systems.

This satellite will be the first batch of a constellation of six satellites managed by NASA, the rest of which will also be launched in the future.

Of Astra’s seven attempts to reach orbit, including a test mission that did not carry a revenue-generating payload, two launch missions have successfully entered orbit in November 2021 and March 2022, respectively.

But failure weather monitoring satellite launch mission this time, it will be Astra’s second time in 2022, as the newcomer tries to start his launch business with Rocket 3.3, a two-stage vehicle capable of lifting 150 kg of satellites into low-earth orbit.

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