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The rocket lifted off at 12:40 a.m. (EST) from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Vulcan rocket of United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint company of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, failed just 10 minutes after launching from Florida on Sunday.
This rocket was carrying 40 satellites for Amazon’s ‘LEO’ broadband internet unit. They too were destroyed. This is the first complete mission failure in ULA’s 20-year history.
Vulcan’s 5th flight was
This was only the 5th flight of the Vulcan rocket and the first flight after 9 months. Earlier, two flights had faced problems due to a problem with the nozzle of the solid booster, which took time to fix.
Even before Sunday’s flight, the countdown was interrupted twice – once due to network issues and once due to a problem with the ground system’s nitrogen plant. However, these have not yet been linked to failure.
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