A Vulcan rocket owned by United Launch Alliance, the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin failed shortly after launch from Florida, destroying its payload of 40 satellites for Amazon's Leo internet network in the company's first mission failure. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-rocket-fails-after-launch-payload-amazon-internet-satellites-destroyed-2026-11-15/
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... and nothing of value was lost ...
@newsguyusa Well, that saved the World from some more space debris...
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Or in Muskspeak, ‘the launch vehicle made a successful diversion to complete payload insertion to Atlantic Ocean’