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Astra Space, Inc. is an American launch vehicles' company based in Alameda California. Astra was incorporated in October 2016 by Chriskemp and Adam London.Formerly known in media as "Stealth Space Company", the company formally came out as Astra Space, Inc. in a Bloomerg .L.P. article by Ashlee vence. Investors include Black Rock, Advance, ACME, Airbus Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Sales force co-founder Marc Benioff, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, and more.
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Astra Agrees to go private,
Spacecraft propulsion and launch company Astra Space has accepted a proposal from its founders to take the company private after previously warning itsonly other alternative was bankruptcy.19 Apr2024
ASTRA plans to get to Earth orbit for the first time this summer — and to return many times in the ensuing weeks, months and years.
And that launch will kick off a sustained and accelerating march to the final frontier for Astra, if all goes according to plan.
The Bay Area small-launch startup reached space for the first time last December, on a test flight with its 38-foot-tall (12 meters) Rocket 3.2 vehicle from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Alaska's Kodiak Island.
Rocket 3.2 didn't quite reach orbit, running out of fuel just seconds before achieving the required velocity. But Astra made some tweaks to its next booster, Rocket 3.3, and plans to launch the new vehicle on a fully operational, satellite-carrying orbital mission sometime this summer.
"In the fall, we'll start this monthly cadence, and then we're going to continue that cadence as we start to ramp towards weekly [orbital launches] late next year, " Astra CEO Chris Kemp, who co-founded the company in 2016, told Space.com.
"Then we'll cross through weekly," Kemp said, and target "daily space delivery, or roughly 300 launches, in 2025."
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