Maiden Flight

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 46 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, 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


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.

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