The Astra Rocket was a small-lift space launch vehicle series designed, manufactured, and operated by American company Astra (formerly known as Ventions). The rockets were designed to be manufactured at minimal cost, employing very simple materials and techniques.

Astra (NASDAQ: ASTR) was the first space launch company to be publicly traded on Nasdaq. Our customers enable and support real change in people’s lives every day. Flight-proven electric propulsion systems for constellations. Astra delivered its first customer payloads into Earth orbit for the Spaceflight Astra-1 mission.

Astra Space, Inc., formerly known as Ventions, LLC from 2005 - 2016, is an American space company based in Alameda, California, with facilities in Sunnyvale, California and Atwater, California.

2024年3月7日 · Astra's long, strange trip in the space business is taking another turn. The company announced Thursday that it is going private at an extremely low valuation. Four years ago, the rocket...

2024年10月25日 · To be clear, Astra is not back yet. The company remains in the phase of building and testing rocket stages and engines and does not have a launch vehicle ready to go. Its new booster, Rocket...

Astra empowers its customers to Improve Life on Earth from Space® by providing dedicated small launches and mission-critical on-orbit mobility to smallsat builders and operators around the world.

2020年2月1日 · Astra is building small rockets designed for mass production and for reliable performance. You don’t need the equivalent of a Ferrari to carry a small payload to orbit, so we’re not building one.

Currently, Astra is working on developing Rocket 4, a larger, more capable, and reliable rocket slated to launch in early 2024. In February 2021, Astra announced it would go public via a SPAC merger with a valuation of $2.1 billion.

2024年10月25日 · Astra has won a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) worth up to $44 million to support development of its Rocket 4 launch vehicle.

2024年10月24日 · Launch startup Astra has secured a contract with the US military, worth up to $44 million, to continue developing its new Rocket 4 vehicle.