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Astra Space
Astra Rocket 4 | Maiden Flight
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Mission
Maiden Flight
Test Flight
Low Earth Orbit
First flight of Astra Space's second generation small satellite launch vehicle.
Status
To Be Determined
Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.
Pad
Location
America/New_York
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including uncrewed aerial vehicles.
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Rocket
Astra Rocket 4
Astra Rocket 4 is the fourth version and second orbital version of Astra Space's small satellite launch vehicle. It is designed to carry 750kg in LEO.
Details
Min stage: 2
Max stage: 2m
Length: 18.9m
Diameter: 1.8
Pending launches: 1
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) capacity: 750kg
Launch cost: US$5000000
Manufacturer
Astra Space
Commercial
USA
Astra Space is a launch vehicle company based in San Francisco, California, that develops pump-fed, liquid bipropellant propulsion engines for DARPA and NASA as well as their Astra Rocket launch vehicle.
2005
CEO: Chris Kemp
Rocket 3.3
Agency
Astra Space
Astra Space is a launch vehicle company based in San Francisco, California, that develops pump-fed, liquid bipropellant propulsion engines for DARPA and NASA as well as their Astra Rocket launch vehicle.
Details
CEO: Chris Kemp
2005
Rocket 3.3
Total launch count: 7
Successful launches: 2
Failed launches: 5
Pending launches: 1