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Astra obtained the engine technology from Apollo Fusion through its 2021 acquisition of Apollo Fusion.
Astra reported no revenue in 2021 and described itself as a developmental-stage company until its first paid commercial launch for NASA in February 2022.
Astra will deliver the ordered thrusters starting later in 2022 and continuing into 2023.
The 2022-03-15 mission delivered Astra’s first customer satellites to orbit.
The campaign for LV0007 provided Astra with lessons about designing operations for strenuous weather environments.
By the time Astra launched LV0008, LV0009 had already shipped to Kodiak, Alaska.
Astra delivered 22 satellites to a circular sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) from the Astra Spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska on 2022-03-15.
ASTRA 1P and ASTRA 1Q are slated to launch in 2024 to 19.2 degrees East to replace four spacecraft that primarily serve broadcast markets.
Spaceflight executed a launch with Astra and plans to debut two additional variations of its Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle family with the GEO Pathfinder quarter lunar slingshot mission.
Astra’s Rocket 3.3 launched from Kodiak Island, Alaska on 2022-03-15 and placed 16 Swarm satellites into orbit.
The 2022-03-15 Astra launch carried a payload by NearSpace Launch that remained attached to the rocket’s upper stage as planned.
U.S. Space Force tracking data on the Space-Track.org database listed 20 objects associated with the 2022-03-15 Astra launch.
Shares in Astra were volatile in trading on 2022-03-13, closing down nearly 0.6% at $3.49.
The Spaceflight Astra-1 mission delivered Astra's first customer payloads into Earth orbit on 2022-03-15.
Astra planned for the vehicle on the 2022-03-15 mission to deliver the payloads to a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 525 km.
Astra delivered its first customer payloads into Earth orbit on 2022-03-15 during the Spaceflight Astra-1 mission.
The next three launches Astra has planned will take place from Florida and will carry cubesats for NASA’s Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Earth science mission.
A flawed design in the wiring for the payload fairing separation system on Astra’s 2022-02-10 launch prevented one mechanism from firing, keeping the fairing from separating as planned.
The 2022-03-15 mission was the first in a multilaunch agreement Astra announced with launch services provider Spaceflight on 2022-03-14.
Spaceflight expanded its launch vehicle partner portfolio by adding Astra to offer customers additional launch opportunities.