11:20 a.m. EDT Wednesday update: Adding Astra’s plan to grow Rocket 4’s payload capacity to more than 1,000 kilograms. Astra is running out of money. It’s been a year since Astra shelved its first ...

Astra’s Rocket 3.3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral June 12 carrying two NASA TROPICS cubesats. The launch failed, though, when the upper stage shut down prematurely. Credit: NASASpaceflight LLC/Astra ...

Rocket launch company Astra isn’t starting out with the best track record, after its latest mission for NASA ended in failure — just a few months after its last rocket carrying payloads for the agency ...

Update June 12: The launch of the TROPICS-1 mission has failed. “After a nominal first stage flight, the upper stage of the rocket shut down early and failed to deliver the TROPICS CubeSats to orbit,” ...

WASHINGTON — Astra Space won a task order worth $11.5 million to launch experimental payloads for the Defense Department’s Space Test Program. Astra, a small satellite launch company based in Alameda, ...

ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Astra Space, Inc. (“Astra”) (Nasdaq: ASTR) announced today that it has been awarded a launch contract add-on for Rocket 4’s first test flight with the U.S. Department ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Florida’s Space Coast could see its next rocket launch this Sunday, and it’s an Earth science mission for NASA. It’s set to be launched by Astra Space, a startup rocket ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Astra Space’s first rocket launch from Florida was delayed Saturday after issues with a range asset. Astra Space said a range asset went out of service and they had to ...

Rocket launch company Astra will no longer send the remaining NASA TROPICS payloads to space, but instead will launch other “comparable” scientific missions for the agency, the company announced ...