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Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket fails during 6th-ever launch, falls into the sea near Antarctica

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The sixth -ever launch of Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket is officially a failure.

The two -stage, 96.7-foot-tall ( 29.6 meters ) Alpha lifted off from California 's Vandenberg Space Force Base this morning .

It was carrying a technology demonstration for aerospace giant Lockheed Martin toward low Earth orbit ( LEO ) But the payload never got there.

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