Launch Window
August 27, 20201 to September 11, 2021
Launch Site
Pad LP-3B, Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska; Kodiak, Alaska
Target Orbit
Inclination: 70 degrees
Altitude: 415 kilometers
Payload
This mission includes a non-deployable Space Force payload.
Mission Overview and Objective
Space Force contracted this launch through the Defense Innovation Unit’s Other Transaction Agreement with Astra. Space Force will be launching a test payload for the Space Test Program (STP-27AD1). You can read more at astra.com/newsroom.
Mission Timeline
(all times are approximate)
| +0s | Lift-off |
| +12s | Begin Pitch Over |
| +1min 15s | Max-Q |
| +2min 50s | Main Engine Cut-off (MECO) |
| +2min 55s | Fairing separation |
| +3min 00s | Stage separation |
| +3min 05s | Aether ignition |
| +8min 20s | Second Engine Cut-Off (SECO) |
| +8min 30s | Payload Deployment Signal |
About Rocket 3.3
Astra has developed the world’s most responsive and affordable orbital launch system.
Rocket 3.3 is an expendable, vertically-launched two stage LOX/kerosene rocket, designed to fit inside a standard shipping container and built to dramatically lower the cost of access to space. Eschewing labor-intensive processes such as carbon composite layups, Astra has focused on proven and cost-efficient metallic structures.
Rocket 3.3 consists of a first stage powered by five electric-pump-fed engines and an upper stage propelled by a single pressure-fed Aether engine.
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First Stage | Upper Stage |
| Engines | Delphin | Aether |
| Engine Qty | 5 | 1 |
| Thrust per Engine | 6,500 lbf SL | 740 lbf vacuum |
| Total Thrust | 32,500 lbf SL | 740 lbf vacuum |
| Propellant | LOX / Kerosene | LOX / Kerosene |
| Overall Length | 43 feet | |
| Diameter | 52 inches | |
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