Astra Acquires Apollo Fusion to Reach New Orbits
ALAMEDA, Calif. — June 7. Astra, the fastest privately funded company in history to reach space, announced today its planned acquisition of Apollo Fusion in a transaction valued up to $145 million. Apollo Fusion manufactures a leading electric propulsion engine. This acquisition allows Astra to…
Astra & Apollo: Reaching New Orbits Together
By: Benjamin Lyon Today, we announced that Astra will acquire Apollo Fusion. This acquisition enables Astra to efficiently deliver and operate throughout our solar system, and brings incredible technology and talent into our team. So, what is this all really about? At Astra we’re focused…
Planet Labs: Using space to help life on Earth
By Chris Kemp We are thrilled to be working with Planet Labs on a multi-launch mission in 2022. This is a milestone for both of our companies, and creates an important inflection point as we begin delivering launch services to our customers that are creating…
NASA TROPICS: Astra’s first Earth Science mission
In February, NASA awarded Astra the launch contract for the TROPICS mission. This innovative Earth Science mission consists of a constellation of six small satellites that will observe tropical cyclones, aiming to improve the scientific community’s understanding of these dangerous weather events. To learn more…
Meet the Team: Gio Greco
In his role as Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, Gio oversees Astra’s product engineering organization, designing, testing and certifying our rockets. Gio brings more than a decade of experience with spacecraft in addition to automotive and maritime engineering. What challenges are you looking forward to…
Meet the Team: Pablo Gonzalez
As Astra brings on talent, we’ll profile new and veteran members of the Astra team and community who are working toward our mission to improve life on Earth from space. This week we speak with Pablo Gonzalez. Pablo recently joined us as Senior Vice President…
Meet the Team: Matt Ganser
Matt recently joined Astra as VP of Business Operations, where he will lead Spaceport Services and Real Estate Services to ensure our customers have flexible and affordable launch options and Astra has the assets necessary to make daily space delivery possible. Matt’s career has focused…
Meet the Team: Will Drewery
Will Drewery is a manufacturing and supply chain executive with experience spanning across automotive, construction, and industrial automation robotics industries. As Astra’s VP of Supply Chain, Will is responsible for identifying, sourcing, and distributing the materials and services necessary to operate the business. Prior to…
Giovanni Greco Joins Astra as VP of Vehicle Engineering
Greco to leverage over two decades of experience engineering state-of-the-art vehicles to advance rocket production ALAMEDA, California - March 16. Astra today announced that Giovanni Greco joined the company as Vice President of Vehicle Engineering. Greco comes from Blue Origin, where he served as Senior…
Tesla Automation Leader Pablo Gonzalez Joins Astra to Scale Production
Gonzalez to apply experience developing Tesla automation lines to scale rocket and satellite production ALAMEDA, Calif. – March 15. Astra today announced that Pablo Gonzalez, Ph.D., will join the company as Senior Vice President of Factory Engineering. Gonzalez previously worked at Tesla, Inc., where he…
Meet the Team: Kelyn Brannon
Meet the Team: Kelyn Brannon As Astra brings on talent, we’ll profile new and veteran members of the Astra team and community as we work toward our mission of improving life on Earth from space. This week we speak with Kelyn Brannon. As Astra’s Chief…
Meet the Team: Benjamin Lyon
As Astra brings on talent, we’ll profile new and veteran members of the Astra team and community as we work toward our mission of improving life on Earth from space. First up, Benjamin Lyon. Benjamin recently joined us as Chief Engineer to help lead our…
Astra Teams Up With NASA to Help Study Hurricanes
We’re happy to share the news that NASA has chosen Astra to help carry out a mission that beautifully reflects our vision of improving life on Earth from space. Under a newly-awarded contract as part of the agency’s Tropics program, Astra will launch six NASA…
Apple Veteran Benjamin Lyon Joins Astra as Chief Engineer
Lyon brings to Astra two decades of experience at Apple designing and manufacturing hardware ALAMEDA, Calif. - Astra today announced that Benjamin Lyon will join Astra as Chief Engineer. Lyon has led the development of core technologies for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Astra is…
Astra to become the first publicly traded space launch company on NASDAQ via merger with Holicity
BlackRock-managed funds and accounts lead investment in Astra to launch a new generation of space services to improve life on Earth ALAMEDA, Calif., February 2, 2021 - Astra, the fastest privately-funded company in history to demonstrate orbital launch capability, and Holicity Inc. (NASDAQ: HOL) (“Holicity”),…
Hello, Nasdaq: Astra is Going Public
Space has always captivated us because it represents a frontier that is just out of reach and a future yet to be written. When I served as Chief Technology Officer at NASA, I was part of a team of extraordinary innovators who believed that space…
Astra makes it to space!
https://youtu.be/pQG8Z_wko1w December 15th, 2020 was a historic day for Astra and America, as we joined a small, elite group of privately funded companies that have made it to space. We couldn’t be more proud that our team accomplished this milestone in the face of…
Rocket 3.2 Ready To Launch!
Ready to Launch! Astra’s mission is to launch a new generation of space services to improve life on earth, and we’re accomplishing this by making space more accessible through affordable, regular launches. Only three months since our last test launch, we’re back on the pad…
We have liftoff!
At 8:19pm PT, Rocket 3.1 left the Alaskan coast at Astra’s Kodiak launch site. We're excited to have our first orbital attempt under our belt! As we’ve always said, we expect it to take three flights to make it to orbit. Tonight, we saw a…
Rocket 3.1 and Astra’s path to orbit
Astra is on a mission to launch a new generation of space services to observe, connect and improve life on earth. Despite damage to our launch system this spring, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and even an earthquake off the coast of Kodiak, Alaska, our team…