‘Didn’t quite make it’: Data glitch forces Astra to miss out on $2M DARPA Launch Challenge prize

‘Didn’t quite make it’: Data glitch forces Astra to miss out on $2M DARPA Launch Challenge prizeThe once-stealthy California company known as Astra came within 53 seconds of sending up a rocket to try winning a $2 million prize in the DARPA Launch Challenge today, but ended up scrubbing the launch. If Astra's "One of Three" rocket had successfully launched its payloads to orbit from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Alaska's Kodiak Island, it would have won DARPA's first-stage prize — and it could have been in the running for the $10 million grand prize with a second orbital launch later this months. But at literally the last minute, liftoff was held up due to off-nominal… Read More