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Astra Test Flight (Launch Vehicle 0006)

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Overview

Destination: Polar Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Polar Orbit Launch Pad 3B Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA

Space Force test payload contracted through the Defense Innovation Unit’s Other Transaction Agreement with Astra Space.

Updates

Nosu • Aug. 5, 2021, 1:09 p.m.

Adding launch

Nosu • Aug. 27, 2021, 11:12 a.m.

Launch date confirmed by Astra. Window per latest FAA ATCSCC advisory.

Nosu • Aug. 28, 2021, 10:41 p.m.

Launch terminated after Max-Q.

Nosu • Aug. 28, 2021, 8:47 p.m.

Now targeting NET 22:00 UTC

Nosu • Aug. 28, 2021, 8:03 p.m.

Now targeting NET 21:45 UTC

Astra Rocket 3

Family:
Configuration: 3

Astra Rocket 3.0 is the third version and first orbital version of Astra Space's small satellite launch vehicle. It is designed to carry 100kg in LEO.

Specifications

Stages
2
Length
11.6 m
Diameter
1.32 m
Fairing Diameter
―
Launch Mass
―
Thrust
140.0 kN

Family

Name
Astra Rocket 3
Family
―
Variant
3
Alias
―
Full Name
Astra Rocket 3

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
$2500000
Low Earth Orbit
100.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
―
Direct Geostationary
―
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
25.0 kg

Astra Space

(AS)

CEO: Chris Kemp Founded: 2005 Successes: 2 Failures: 5 Pending: 1

Agency Type:

Astra Space is a launch vehicle company based in San Francisco, California, that develops pump-fed, liquid bipropellant propulsion engines for DARPA and NASA as well as their Astra Rocket launch vehicle.

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