Rocket launch doesn’t go well
Brazil launched a rocket carrying scientific experiments in a bid to revive a space program that was set back by a deadly accident in 2003. But searchers failed to find the payload afterward and said it probably sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
The VSB-30 rocket was airborne for only 20 minutes, and the Brazilian Space Agency had expected to retrieve a module carrying experiments based on minimal gravity in space.
The rocket was only the second of its kind to be launched from Alcantara since one exploded in 2003 and killed 21 people, including several scientists.
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