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Astra is under contract to perform a second launch later in 2021 following the first commercial orbital launch with the United States Space Force.
Astra raised nearly $500,000,000 in connection with its Nasdaq listing ahead of its first commercial mission this summer.
Astra will begin monthly launches 2021 and plans to scale to daily launches by 2025.
Astra announced plans on 2021-02-02 to trade on Nasdaq by merging with Holicity, a blank-check company run by cellular industry pioneer Craig McCaw that went public in 2020-08-01.
Astra Space, Inc. is expanding its factory in Alameda, California.
Astra shared plans to launch payloads up to 500 kg to a 500-kilometer, mid-inclination (50-degree) orbit.
Momentus, Astra, Spire, BlackSky, Rocket Lab, and Redwire planned SPAC deals in 2021 that together intended to raise $2,800,000,000.
Astra achieved orbital launch capability in December 2020 as the fastest privately funded company in history to do so.
Astra will continue producing the Rocket 3.3 configuration at scale with only minor enhancements while ramping up production.
Astra went public via a merger into a SPAC and raised $500 million on a $2 billion valuation.
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 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 launch Rocket 3.3 from Kodiak in a few months when access to the site is available.
Astra completed testing of the vehicle Rocket 3.2 and will ship it from its California headquarters to the Pacific Spaceport Complex–Alaska on Kodiak Island.
The 2020-08-30 launch is the first of three launches Astra plans to perform to demonstrate that the Rocket 3.1 vehicle can achieve orbit.
Astra considers the 2020-08-02 launch attempt to be unlikely to achieve orbit.
The 2020-08-02 launch is the first of three launches Astra plans to carry out to demonstrate Rocket 3.1’s ability to achieve orbit.
Had Astra reached orbit on the first launch it would have received $2 million, and a successful second launch later in March from a different pad at the same spaceport would have enabled Astra to win an additional $10,000,000.
Astra is the sole remaining team in the DARPA Launch Challenge and can win $2,000,000 for placing a DARPA-supplied payload into space on the first launch.