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Rocket Lab's Electron rocket fails during Capella Space launch (spacenews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Hopefully they can get get to a root cause, corrective actions, and return to flight pretty soon. They had a good launch success streak going and were hitting a pretty solid launch cadence, so this really stinks. Electron has been the best (practically the only?) smallsat launcher, and I'm looking forward to their bigger Neutron rocket, so I wish them the best.

Their stock dropping 20% this morning really reinforces my dislike for the stock market.