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Mike Wall

UNCOVERED: September launch failure likely caused by electrical arc rocket lab says - The Untold Story

A black-and-white rocket launches at night.

Rocket Lab thinks it knows what went wrong on its most recent launch.

The California-based company suffered a failure on Sept. 19 with its Electron rocket, resulting in the loss of a commercial Earth-observing satellite. Rocket Lab has been investigating the anomaly ever since, and it has homed in on a likely cause.

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