Ad Astra Rocket Company (Ad Astra) and The Space Nuclear Power Corporation (SpaceNukes) have announced the partnership to enable fast and reliable human and robotic missions to Mars and beyond.

One with a long track record is the Ad Astra Rocket Company, which has been developing its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) system for decades. However, this type of ...

While the low payload requirements of the Launch Challenge (Astra’s rocket can only lift 150 kg to orbit) means the launcher DARPA is looking for could never carry much of a warhead, the concept ...

Astra Space has asked the city of Alameda for a huge break in rents at its industrial headquarters at Alameda Point.

In December 2024, US companies, Ad Astra Rocket Company and The Space Nuclear Power Corporation (SpaceNukes), formed a partnership to advance high-power nuclear electric propulsion (NEP ...

Astra Space says it’s made a deal with Tukwila, Wash.-based LeoStella to provide multiple electric propulsion systems for LeoStella’s small satellites, with deliveries due to begin later this ...