NASA’s Earth-observing TROPICS satellites presumably lost as Astra rocket fails to make orbit

California-based space firm Astra suffered a failed air-and-space on Sunday after the rocket’s second-stage booster engine shut down early.  Astra’s small, 45-foot Rocket 3.3 was launched from Space Launch Complex 46 shortly after 1:40 p.m. local time in Cape Canaveral, Florida with two of air-and-space called TROPICS.    The NASA logo is seen at Kennedy…

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