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The first launch under the Astra–Spaceflight contract was planned for 2022-03-14 with a launch window opening at 9:22 a.m. PDT / 16:22 UTC from the Astra Spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska.
Astra will attempt its Rocket 3.3 launch LV0009 as soon as 2022-03-14.
The LV0009 launch will be Astra’s first flight since a 2022-02-10 launch for NASA failed to reach orbit when the rocket’s payload fairing did not separate correctly.
Spaceflight’s mission named Astra-1 was planned to carry three Spaceflight customers, including Portland State Aerospace Society and NearSpace Launch, to a 525 km circular sun-synchronous orbit.
Astra received a Federal Aviation Administration license on 2022-03-14 for a launch from Pacific Spaceport Complex–Alaska on Kodiak Island.
The LV0009 launch will be the first in a new multi-launch agreement between Astra and the launch services company Spaceflight announced 2022-03-14.
On 2022-03-07 Astra traced the 2022-02-10 payload fairing failure to a flaw in a diagram for a wiring harness that prevented the separation signal from reaching one mechanism.
Astra’s announcement of the LV0009 launch was the first official confirmation that the company planned to launch from Kodiak.
The Astra–Spaceflight agreement provides Spaceflight with launch opportunities using Astra’s launch services through 2025.
Astra conducted its first four orbital launches from Pacific Spaceport Complex–Alaska on Kodiak Island before conducting the 2022-02-10 launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Astra Space identified two problems that led to the failure of its Rocket 3.3 launch on 2022-02-10.
The payload fairing successfully separated on Astra’s previous Rocket 3.3 launch in November 2021, which was the first time that vehicle reached orbit.
Astra launched Launch Vehicle 0008 (LV0008) on 2022-02-10.
NASA’s Launch Services Program is responsible for launching six TROPICS cubesats on three Rocket 3.3 vehicles from Astra Space from Cape Canaveral, currently scheduled for late spring through early summer pending the outcome of Astra’s 2022-02-10 launch failure investigation.
Astra Space selected Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 46, operated by Space Florida, for a launch in February that was its first outside of Alaska.
Astra launched for the first time out of Cape Canaveral earlier 2022-02.
Astra planned to launch its first demo mission from LC-46 at Cape Canaveral, a pad licensed by the Space Force from Space Florida.
Astra Space launched its first mission from Cape Canaveral on 2022-02-10, and that mission failed after the rocket’s upper stage appeared to tumble out of control after stage separation.
Astra launched a 43-foot (13-meter) Rocket 3.3 from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 46.
When Astra Space announced its intent to go public through a SPAC merger, the deal valued the company at $2,100,000,000.