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Astra's Rocket 3.3 first stage worked as expected on the 2022-06-12 flight while the upper stage suffered an anomaly that caused its engine to run out of fuel early.
Astra has an agreement with B. Riley Principal Capital II to sell up to $100,000,000 in stock over the next two years.
Astra plans several test flights and extensive ground testing of Rocket 4 before resuming commercial launches, and whether commercial launches can commence in 2023 will depend on the success of the test flights.
Astra is investigating the cause of the 2022-06-12 failure and is working with NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration, which licensed the launch.
Astra recorded a net loss of $82,300,000 and negative adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $48,400,000 in the second quarter.
Astra's Rocket 4 design includes an upgraded upper stage engine and other design details were not provided.
Astra is scaling up production of its Astra Spacecraft Engine electric propulsion system, which was developed by Apollo Fusion and acquired by Astra last year.
Astra does not plan to conduct any more launches 2022 and plans to begin test launches of the new vehicle sometime in 2023.
Two TROPICS cubesats failed to reach orbit on 2022-06-12 after the upper stage of Astra’s Rocket 3.3 vehicle shut down prematurely.
The 2022-06-12 launch failure was one of three NASA had booked from Astra to complete the TROPICS constellation.
Astra did not deliver the two NASA cubesats to orbit on the 2022-06-12 mission.
Astra’s earlier NASA launch on 2024-02-10, failed when the payload fairing failed to separate due to a flaw in the wiring diagram for the separation system.
NASA awarded Astra a contract valued at $7,950,000 for the three TROPICS launches in February 2021.
Astra’s Rocket 3.3 vehicle designated LV0010 failed to deliver two NASA cubesats after the rocket’s upper stage shut down prematurely on 2024-06-12.
Astra was ready on 2022-06-08 to launch two TROPICS cubesats on its Rocket 3.3 vehicle from Cape Canaveral on 2022-06-12.
Astra expected to receive a launch license on 2022-06-10 in order to begin a series of TROPICS launches from Cape Canaveral.
Astra has achieved orbit on two of six launch attempts, including a November 2021 launch that reached orbit carrying only an instrumentation package that remained attached to the upper stage.
The Indian Ministry of Defence signed a contract with Bharat Dynamics Limited to procure the Astra Mk-1 air-to-air missile.
Astra Space, Inc. is creating a new generation of launch and space services and products to improve everyday life and better meet the needs of the space market.
Astra Space, Inc. contributes over $50,000,000 annually to the gross domestic product of Alameda.