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 ...

A SES/Astra communication satellite will be carried to orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket, lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40. Liftoff is targeted at 5:35 p.m. EDT. But the launch window runs for ...

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.