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Astra Rocket 3: Spaceflight Astra-1

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.

Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Astra Rocket 3: Spaceflight Astra-1

Mission Data

Astra Space
🇺🇸Astra SpaceEst. 2005
Launch VehicleAstra Rocket 3
Vehicle FamilyAstra Rocket
Vehicle Record2 of 7 launches (28.6%)
Provider TypeCommercial
Agency Record2 successes / 5 failures (29%)
Mission TypeTechnology
Target OrbitSun-Synchronous Orbit
Launch PadLaunch Pad 3B
Location🇺🇸 Pacific Spaceport Complex, Alaska, USA USA
Orbital Launches This Year#27
Agency Launches This Year#2
Launches From This Pad5
Launches From This Site9
Status Note

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

About Astra Rocket 3

Astra Rocket 3.0 is the third version and first orbital version of Astra Space's small satellite launch vehicle. It is designed to carry 100kg in LEO.

Launch updates

  1. S/C separation confirmed and signals received by clients.

  2. Liftoff of LV0009 for the Astra Spaceflight-1 mission

  3. Scrubbed due to weather violations.

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  4. Webcast live

  5. New launch time.

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  6. Moving to TBD March pending FAA license.

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  7. NET March 14

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  8. NET March 13 15:22 UTC

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  9. Moving to March TBD pending news from Astra about the ELaNa 41 launch failure investigation.

  10. Delayed by eight days per latest USCG Local Notice to Mariners.

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Launch Site

Launch Pad 3B · 57.4307°N 152.3531°W

Launch data from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs.