Two NASA satellites are lost after a major failure of the Astra rocket during launch
After a major malfunction shortly after liftoff, an Astra rocket carrying two small hurricane-tracking satellites for NASA failed to reach orbit Sunday (June 12). After taking off from a pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:43 p.m. EDT, the Astra rocket, dubbed Launch Vehicle 0010 (LV0010), suffered a second-stage failure…