Vulcan fails to orbit on its first Amazon Leo flight
ULA's Vulcan lifted off from Cape Canaveral's SLC-41 at 12:40 p.m. EST on Nov. 15 with 40 Amazon Leo satellites and failed to reach orbit after an anomaly about 10 minutes into the flight. ULA said it did not yet have specific data on the cause and would investigate with its customer before returning to flight. Spaceflight Now called it ULA's first outright mission failure since 2006 and Vulcan's first flight in nine months.
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