TROPICS-1 Cubesats Lost in Astra Launch Failure

The Astra rocket carrying two TROPICS-1 cubesats failed to deliver the spacecraft into their planned orbits, resulting in the loss of the satellites.

"Despite a loss of the first two of six satellites, the TROPICS constellation will still meet its science objectives with the four remaining CubeSats distributed in two orbits."

NASA statement.

"We had a nomi…