11:20 a.m. EDT Wednesday update: Adding Astra’s plan to grow Rocket 4’s payload capacity to more than 1,000 kilograms. Astra is running out of money. It’s been a year since Astra shelved its first ...

A prototype of Astra's Rocket 4 launch vehicle. Credit: Astra WASHINGTON — Astra has won a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) worth up to $44 million to support development of its Rocket ...

[Houston, TX. For immediate release] – Ad Astra Rocket Company, a world leader in plasma rockets and MEI Technologies, Inc., a nationwide aerospace, defense and technology company, have joined forces ...

The value of publicly traded Astra Space has been falling since it shelved a rocket design that only went for 2 for 7 on launches, including two highly visible failures from the Space Coast. Now the ...

Ad Astra Rocket Company (Ad Astra) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed two separate contracts to continue the maturation of the VASIMR® rocket technology. The ...

Astra Space’s continued efforts to rebound from a pair of Space Coast launch failures with a new rocket has been awarded with a task order by the U.S. Space Force. While the new Rocket 4 design is not ...

Startup Astra's test flight of their Rocket 3 launch vehicle on Saturday from the Pacific Spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska, did not go as planned. Other WRAL Top Stories As the countdown reached zero, the ...

Astra — a startup that's developing small, cheap rockets to deliver batches of satellites to space — attempted to put one of its 40-foot-tall rockets into orbit on Saturday, but the rocket failed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scrub Recap: Read updates below from Tuesday's scrub of the SpaceX launch of the Astra 1P/SES-24 satellite from Cape Canaveral ...