{"id":102859,"date":"2020-02-25T21:02:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/astra-darpa-prepare-for-upcoming-launch-challenge"},"modified":"2020-02-25T21:02:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:02:54","slug":"astra-darpa-prepare-for-upcoming-launch-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/astra-darpa-prepare-for-upcoming-launch-challenge","title":{"rendered":"Astra, DARPA prepare for upcoming launch challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astra-darpa-prepare-for-upcoming-launch-challenge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astra and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are readying for the first launch in a dual-mission \u201claunch challenge\u201d. Astra, the launch contractor, is currently conducting final preparations ahead of the launch of their Rocket 3.0 vehicle, nicknamed \u201c1 of 3\u201d. Both missions will launch from the Pacific Spaceport Complex \u2013 Alaska (PSCA) in Kodiak, Alaska. The first launch attempt is scheduled for 3:30 PM ET on February 27. The window stretches until March 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Astra <\/strong><strong>and the DARPA launch challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s launch will be the third for Astra, coming after two launches in July and November 2018. Both launched from the PSCA in Alaska. These were originally believed to be failures. However, Astra stated that the first was successful, and the second was only \u201cshorter than planned\u201d. Neither were designed to reach orbit, as they didn\u2019t have functioning second stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astra and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are readying for the first launch in a dual-mission \u201claunch challenge\u201d. Astra, the launch contractor, is currently conducting final preparations ahead of the launch of their Rocket 3.0 vehicle, nicknamed \u201c1 of 3\u201d. Both missions will launch from the Pacific Spaceport Complex \u2013 Alaska (PSCA) in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}