Kellstrom Defense Aerospace, in partnership with Astra Aircraft Corporation, has signed an exclusive five year contract with ARMSCOR for material support of the C-130B aircraft, operated by the South ...

Launch facilities at Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska on Kodiak Island. Credit: Alaska Aerospace Corp. WASHINGTON — A secretive California company is gearing up for a test flight of a small launch ...

Astra Aerospace successfully launched an experimental rocket Friday evening from Kodiak Island’s Pacific Spaceport Complex. (Screenshot of livestreamed launch) Astra Aerospace successfully launched an ...

U.S. startup Astra Space has emerged from stealth mode and identified itself as the sole remaining competitor in DARPA’s Launch Challenge to increase the flexibility and pace of flights into low Earth ...

Update for 2 p.m. EDT: Astra has launched its Astra-1 mission into orbit and has confirmed successful payload deployment. You can read our wrap story of the successful launch here. The space startup ...

The private spaceflight startup Astra on Monday called off its first attempt to launch a rocket since a failed flight last month due to the risk of lightning at its Alaska liftoff site. Astra scrubbed ...