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Astra SpaceLaunch SuccessfulTechnologyAstra Rocket 3
Launched 2022-03-15 16:22 UTCLaunch Pad 3B, Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA
Success
Reached Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Worldwide
27th
orbital launch attempt in 2022
Astra Space
2nd
launch this year
Launch Pad 3B
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
115 d 10 h
since the pad's previous launch
S4 CROSSOVER is a technology demonstration mission to obtain flight heritage testing for a prototype payload host platform. It will test supporting future payloads, including a Globalstar transmitter and an Iridium transceiver, as well space environmental instruments to characterize the radiation and plasma densities to which the payloads will be exposed. S4 CROSSOVER is self powered and operates independently of the Astra second stage to which it is permanently attached.
Re-manifested from SXRS-6 / Transporter-3, OreSat0 is a fully open source CubeSat satellite system built from scratch by students at Portland State University. Slated to be Oregon’s first satellite, the 1U CubeSat provides flight heritage for the modular, expandable, open source, and education-friendly OreSat bus. OreSat0 paves the way for OreSat, a NASA CSLI program 2U CubeSat with a global climate science and STEM outreach mission.
Astra Space is a launch vehicle company based in San Francisco, California, that develops pump-fed, liquid bipropellant propulsion engines for DARPA and NASA as well as their Astra Rocket launch vehicle.
Launches
7
Successful
2
29%
Upcoming
1
scheduled
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S/C separation confirmed and signals received by clients.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Liftoff of LV0009 for the Astra Spaceflight-1 mission
Nosu
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Scrubbed due to weather violations.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Webcast live
Nosu
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New launch time.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Moving to TBD March pending FAA license.
Nosu
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NET March 14
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET March 13 15:22 UTC
Nosu
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Moving to March TBD pending news from Astra about the ELaNa 41 launch failure investigation.
Nosu
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Delayed by eight days per latest USCG Local Notice to Mariners.
Nosu
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Adding launch NET February 20, 14:30-15:30 UTC.
Nosu
Height
11.6m
Diameter
1.3m
To low Earth orbit
100kg
Liftoff thrust
140kN
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