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 just got some help in getting its new rocket off the ground. The California-based company announced today (Oct. 23) ...

MOSCOW, November 20. /TASS/. A carrier rocket developed by the American company Astra with a test cargo of the US Space Force has successfully reached orbit, the company reported on its Twitter page.

liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40. After yet another scrub on Wednesday afternoon, SpaceX successfully launched the Astra 1P/SES-24 satellite from Cape Canaveral ...

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 ...