United Launch Alliance said its Vulcan rocket suffered an anomaly about 10 minutes into the flight and failed to deliver the Amazon mission to orbit. (EPA Images pic)BROWNSVILLE: A Vulcan rocket owned by United Launch Alliance, the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, failed on Sunday shortly after launch from Florida, destroying its payload of 40 satellites for Amazon's Leo internet network in the company's first mission failure.
The rocket failed roughly 10 minutes after liftoff, and the cause was not immediately clear.
It represented a major setback for the two-decade-old company's new flagship rocket as it sought to begin a regular cadence of launches for Amazon's burgeoning satellite internet constellation.
