All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Astra and The New Constellation Astra is the smallest star in Constellation Station. Tired of being picked on, she sets off an adventure to build a new ...

The TROPICS mission included two CubeSats intended to join NASA’s existing constellation by the same name. Astra Rocket 3.3 launch vehicle took off as planned from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on ...

Rocket Lab is also working hard to build its medium-lift Neutron vehicle to serve the mega-constellation market, as Electron has limited use cases. Kemp said Astra plans to conduct test launches ...

In May 2022, the company told investors it would “power the space economy” with its Astra constellation, launched on Astra rockets, in 2023. There has been no subsequent public update ...

Astra (@Astra) June 12 ... maybe four or six hours before the next satellite flies over. With this Cubesat constellation of six satellites ... we can fly over about every hour.

Astra quickly confirmed both small satellites – two of six NASA is hoping to launch for the small weather constellation – were lost. "We had a nominal first stage flight. The upper stage shut ...

It was the first of three planned TROPICS missions this year by Astra, each carrying two NASA cubesats about the size of a loaf of bread, to complete the hurricane-watching constellation.

Astra, and the Rocket 3.3 design ... This was the first of three flights that were planned to assemble a constellation of small CubeSats as part of NASA’s TROPICS mission.