Astra-1 Prepares for Lift Off from Alaska

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…