Rocket 4 is Astra's planned next-gen launch system. It's bigger and more powerful than Rocket 3, which the company retired in ...

Update 4:46 p.m.: Not much has changed with ... Upcoming SpaceX, NASA, ULA rocket launch schedule in Florida Astra 1P/SES-24 is a communications satellite for an SES and Astra partnership, which ...

2024 saw a Great Space Shakeout among rocket ... 4 million each. While Rocket Lab didn't come out and say it, it seems the thinning out of competition from other small launchers -- Virgin Orbit ...

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 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 ...

The previous launch in late August ended in failure: a couple of minutes after the launch, the rocket's engines turned off and it lost stability. Astra’s ... via Qatar by 4:00 p.m. local time ...