Astra's Rocket 3.3 carried two NASA TROPICS hurricane-monitoring CubeSats from Cape Canaveral, but the upper stage shut down early after a fuel injector blockage caused a cooling failure, and both satellites were lost. It was Astra's fifth launch failure.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 7th
- of 7 Astra Rocket 3 flights
- Date and time
- 12 June 2022, 17:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Astra Rocket 3
- Builder
- Astra
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 46, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 2022
- 64th of 186