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Astra-1 Prepares for Lift Off from Alaska

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Tom Patton
Mar 14, 2022
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Spaceflight will be taking three organizations’ spacecraft to orbit on its maiden flight with Astra, dubbed “Astra-1”. The dedicated mission will launch from the Pacific Spaceport on Kodiak Island Alaska.

"While this mission has been planned for a while, we recently needed to reconfigure the mission to accommodate new payloads in a short timeframe, and A…

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