Astra will launch from a spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska. Astra The site is in southern Alaska, offering a good corridor to polar orbits. Astra This is the company's third-generation rocket, named Rocket 3.0. Astra The booster has a mobile launch setup, which can be contained in four tractor-trailers. Astra This is the first orbital launch attempt by Astra. Astra It has made two previous suborbital launch attempts. Astra One was mostly successful, the second was not. Astra
Time is running out for rocket company Astra to successfully launch its first orbital rocket and claim the first part of a prize offered by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. A three-hour launch window opens today at 3:30pm ET (20:30 UTC) for liftoff of Astra's "One of Three" rocket from a spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska.
Astra, which is based in Alameda, California, has been trying to launch the rocket for several days. On Friday, the company completed a successful wet dress rehearsal and on Saturday morning conducted a Launch Readiness Review with the Federal Aviation Administration. However, due to poor weather conditions, Saturday's launch attempt had to be scrubbed. ConditRead More – Source
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