Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2025, 8:21 AM ET (1221 GMT)
Astra is targeting the summer of next year for the first launch of its Rocket 4 vehicle. Astra CEO Chris Kemp said Wednesday at World Space Business Week that the company was on track for a first launch of the vehicle, capable of placing 750 kilograms into low Earth orbit, from Cape Canaveral. Kemp said Astra is seeing demand from customers looking for alternatives to SpaceX for launches. Astra announced Rocket 4 in 2022 but ran into technical challenges with the earlier Rocket 3.3 and financial problems that caused the company to go private last year.

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