Maiden Flight

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Low Earth Orbit Unknown Pad Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

First flight of Astra Space's second generation small satellite launch vehicle.

Updates

Nosu • Sept. 18, 2025, 5:07 p.m.

Adding launch NET mid-2026


Cosmic_Penguin • Sept. 16, 2026, 12:51 p.m.

NET early Q1.


Astra Rocket 4

Family:
Configuration: 4

Astra Rocket 4 is the fourth version and second orbital version of Astra Space's small satellite launch vehicle. It is designed to carry 750kg in LEO.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    18.9 m
  • Diameter
    1.8 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    1.8 m
  • Launch Mass
    30.0 T
  • Thrust
    310.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Astra Rocket 4
  • Family
    ―
  • Variant
    4
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    Astra Rocket 4
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $5000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    750.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    ―
  • Direct Geostationary
    ―
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    ―

Astra Space

Astra Space

(AS)

CEO: Chris Kemp Founded: 2005 Successes: 2 Failures: 5 Pending: 1

Agency Type:

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.

INFO WIKI
SpaceNews

Astra plans mid-2026 first launch of Rocket 4

Astra is targeting next summer for the first flight of its Rocket 4 vehicle as the company prepares to reenter the launch market. The post Astra plans mid-2026 first launch of Rocket 4 appeared first on SpaceNews.

Arstechnica

Rocket Report: European rocket reuse test delayed; NASA tweaks SLS for Artemis II

"There’s a lot of interest because of the fear that there’s just not a lot of capacity."

Arstechnica

Rocket Report: Era of cheap launch is over? Astra sets early 2027. target for return

"The customer got comfortable with a high reliability and a low price."

Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

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