Astra will perform its second orbital launch attempt during a 12-day window that opens 2020-12-07 at the Pacific Spaceport Complex–Alaska on Kodiak Island.
Astra’s Rocket 3.2 vehicle is similar to the Rocket 3.1 vehicle that failed to reach orbit during a 2020-09-11 launch from Kodiak.
Astra completed testing of the vehicle Rocket 3.2 and will ship it from its California headquarters to the Pacific Spaceport Complex–Alaska on Kodiak Island.
Astra launched its Rocket 3.1 vehicle from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska on Kodiak Island on 2020-09-11.
Astra will attempt to launch its Rocket 3.1 vehicle from Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska on Kodiak Island on 2020-08-30.
Astra’s Rocket 3.0 attempted to launch from Kodiak in March as part of the DARPA Launch Challenge and was scrubbed less than a minute before liftoff because of an anomalous signal in vehicle telemetry.
Astra attempted to launch from Kodiak during a six-day period that began 2020-08-02, with weather postponing launch attempts on three days and technical and range issues scrubbing launches on the other three days.
Astra posted a video on 2020-07-16 showing Rocket 3.1 completing a second static-fire test at a California test site and stated the rocket was being shipped to Kodiak, Alaska.
The launch window for Astra’s Rocket 3.1 will open 2020-08-02 from the Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska on Kodiak Island.
The Minotaur 4 has launched missions from Wallops Island, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Kodiak Island in Alaska, and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Astra reserved a launch window that opens 2020-07-20 from Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska on Kodiak Island.
Astra failed its attempt to win the $2,000,000 DARPA Launch Challenge at the Pacific Spaceport Complex at Kodiak Island, Alaska earlier 2020.
The Federal Aviation Administration published a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) for launch activities from the Kodiak Island site for 2020-03-24 and 2020-03-25.
Astra planned to launch its Rocket 3.0 vehicle from the Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska on Kodiak Island as the first of two orbital launches for the DARPA Launch Challenge.
Astra will perform both launches required by the DARPA Launch Challenge from the Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska on Kodiak Island from two separate pads about 300 m apart.
DARPA covered at least some of the costs of transporting Astra’s rocket to the Kodiak launch site and the rocket arrived within a couple hours of the 2020-02-18 briefing.
DARPA informed Astra on 2020-02-17 that Astra would be allowed to perform its second Launch Challenge launch from Kodiak, Alaska.
Vector planned another suborbital test flight from the Pacific Spaceport Complex–Alaska on Kodiak Island later in 2019.
Astra performed an initial suborbital launch from Kodiak on 2018-07-20 that the FAA characterized as suffering an unspecified "mishap."
The FAA published a temporary flight restriction on 2018-11-26 closing airspace near the Kodiak launch site from 2018-11-29 through 2018-12-01 for a rocket launch.