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Astra opened a 5,600-square-meter facility in Sunnyvale, California to produce Astra Spacecraft Engines.
Astra is supplying electric propulsion systems to Apex in a form called the Spacecraft Propulsion Kit.
The Astra Spacecraft Engine was originally developed by propulsion startup Apollo Fusion, which Astra acquired in 2021.
Astra is expected to begin delivering the Spacecraft Propulsion Kits in 2023.
Astra Space, Inc. and Apex Technology, Inc. have a contract for Astra to provide five Spacecraft Propulsion Kits for Apex’s satellite bus platform.
Apex’s 100 kg bus model, Aries, will use the Astra Spacecraft Engine to support its electric propulsion package.
Astra’s Rocket 4 is a newly architected, higher-capacity launch vehicle that will host Launch System 2.
Astra’s ability to compete for the STP-S29B mission was based on its work to design a repeatably reliable Rocket 4 and its prior experience delivering multi-manifest missions to desired orbits.
Astra Space was awarded a launch task order for Rocket 4 through the United States Space Force’s Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 contract for the STP-S29B mission.
Astra’s Launch System 2 is designed to deploy spacecraft directly into operational orbits for customers that need affordable, frequent, and reliable orbital launch.
Astra selected Ursa Major’s Hadley liquid engine to power the upper stage of its Rocket 4 launch vehicle.
The Small Launch and Targets Division Office at Kirtland Air Force Base awarded an $11,500,000 Task Order to Astra Space, Inc. of Alameda, California for the Space Test Program STP-S29B launch service.
Astra discontinued its smaller Rocket 3.3 vehicle and is developing the Rocket 4 vehicle.
Astra Space, Inc. will use its Rocket 4 vehicle to deliver the STP-S29B mission manifest to low Earth orbit.
Rocket 4 is a new Astra vehicle designed to carry heavier payloads than the previous Astra Rocket 3.3.
Astra discontinued development of Rocket 3.3 after Rocket 3.3 failed to deploy two NASA TROPICS satellites in June 2022.
The $11,500,000 task order to Astra was awarded under the U.S. Space Force’s Orbital Services Program OSP-4 as recorded by Space Systems Command on 2023-04-21.
Astra Space won a task order worth $11,500,000 to launch experimental payloads for the Defense Department’s Space Test Program.
Astra’s ability to compete for the STP-S29B mission was based on the company’s work to design a repeatably reliable Rocket 4 and its prior experience delivering multi-manifest missions to their desired orbits.
Astra Space, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASTR) was awarded a launch task order for Rocket 4 through the United States Space Force’s Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 contract.