Spaceflight Astra-1

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

16:22:00

Tuesday March 15, 2022

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Spaceflight Astra-1

Spaceflight’s Astra-1 will take three Spaceflight customers, including Portland State Aerospace Society and NearSpace Launch, to a 525 km circular sun-synchronous orbit. Spaceflight managed the mission for all customers onboard and worked closely with the Astra team during the integration process. S4 CROSSOVER is designed to obtain flight heritage testing for a prototype payload host platform. Features that will be tested for use in supporting future payloads include a Globalstar transmitter and an Iridium transceiver, as well as space environmental instruments to characterize the radiation and plasma densities to which the payloads will be exposed. This payload will not be separated from the rocket. Portland State Aerospace Society’s OreSat0 will test critical subsystems for the upcoming OreSat spacecraft. The satellites will be launched into a 525-kilometer Sun-Synchronous orbit.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Rocket

Retired
Rocket 3

Active 2020 to 2022

Astra Space logo

Agency

Astra

Price

$2.50 million

Rocket

Height: 11.6m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 204 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

133 Kilonewtons

Stages

2

Launch Site

LP-3B

Pacific Spaceport Complex, Kodiak, Alaska, USA

Fastest Turnaround

83 days 7 hours

Stats

Rocket 3


6th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2022

2022


27th

Orbital launch attempt