This award is a testament not only to our team's perseverance this past year, but also a validation of our vision for tactically responsive space.' ...

I'll be frank: When Kemp and his co-founder, Adam London, took Astra private this summer, I never expected to hear from the company again. Astra certainly was not the first launch company to fail, and ...

Astra just got some help in getting its new rocket off the ground. The California-based company announced today (Oct. 23) that it has signed a contract with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a U ...

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DIU was evidently swayed by Astra’s proposal, however, and the new contract could help see Rocket 4 reach orbit for the first time. The goal of that launch, according to a document released by ...

The contract supports advancing and scaling the production capabilities of Astra’s unique tactically responsive launch system, to achieve the prototype objective of launching Rocket 4 to orbit ...

Astra last week said it has received a potential $44 million contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to further develop and scale production ...

Rocket 4 is Astra's planned next-gen launch system. It's bigger and more powerful than Rocket 3, which the company retired in 2022 after it experienced a reported five failures out of seven ...