Photos: Delta 4 lights up the sky for night owl launch

SpaceX has filed a protest challenging a nearly $150 million NASA contract awarded to United Launch Alliance last month to send a robotic asteroid probe into space.

The anomaly appears similar to the nozzle burn through seen during the launch of the second certification flight of a Vulcan rocket.

Watch a video replay of Monday night’s hotfire of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket is set for launch Thursday with Qatar’s Es’hail 2 communications satellite.