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Astra plans a commercial flight with a payload in the summer following the December 2020 launch and plans to ramp up commercial launch operations that year.
The three Astra Rocket 3 launches for TROPICS will take place over a 120-day period between 2021-01-08 and 2022-07-31, from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Astra received a separate Venture Class Launch Services contract in December valued at $3,900,000 for the dedicated launch of 30 kg of cubesats to a 500-kilometer mid-inclination orbit no later than June 2022.
NASA awarded Astra a $7,950,000 contract for three launches of the company’s Rocket 3 vehicle to deploy the TROPICS mission.
The SES contract permits NHK WORLD-JAPAN’s free-to-air English-language HD channel to be distributed from Astra at 19.2 degrees East to over 45 million satellite TV-equipped homes across Europe.
In August 2020, AASC was selected by ASTRA LLC to deliver a flight-ready Metal Plasma Thruster for ASTRA’s EWS Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager (RROCI) mission scheduled for launch in early 2022.
Astra went public via a merger into a SPAC and raised $500 million on a $2 billion valuation.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center selected ASTRA LLC to develop and demonstrate an Electro-Optical/Infrared LEO-based cloud characterization solution called RROCI to support U.S. warfighter operations.
A flight-ready AASC Metal Plasma Thruster unit will be delivered to Pumpkin Labs, which was selected by ASTRA to build and integrate the 12U spacecraft bus.
Astra will begin delivering customer payloads this summer and will begin monthly launches by the end of 2021.
Astra has booked over $150,000,000 of contracted launch revenue.
The proposed transaction reflects an implied pro-forma enterprise value for Astra of approximately $2,100,000,000.
Astra expects to raise $489,000,000 through the merger with Holicity, including a $200,000,000 private investment in public equity led by BlackRock and $30,000,000 from a concurrent Series C round.
Astra became the fastest privately funded company in U.S. history to reach space and demonstrate a launch system capable of deploying satellites into low Earth orbit three months after its first orbital launch attempt.
Astra plans to dramatically increase its launch schedule over the next 2–3 years with a goal of daily launches by 2025.
Astra projects achieving profitability in 2024 and expects the merger proceeds to fully fund the company to profitability.
The transaction reflects an implied pro-forma enterprise value for Astra of approximately $2,100,000,000.
The transaction reflects an implied pro forma enterprise value for Astra of approximately $2,100,000,000.
Astra expects most 2025 revenue to come from its launch business and additional revenue from a new line of modular spacecraft platforms designed for launch on Astra rockets.
Astra has booked more than $150,000,000 of contracted launch revenue.